Daily Affirmation

by Rebecca Grites

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Inside the 100-odd pages of The Daily Candy Lexicon: Words That Don't Exist But Should (Virgin Books, July 8, $14.95), the editors of the "all things pop culture" daily e-mail give you new catch phrases, acronyms and words to incorporate into your everyday life. From nightlife and shopping to holidays and technology, your lexicon is about to be updated, upgraded and made much more humorous.

With every section, a brief preface describes what's to come and where its contents were inspired. "Work," that pesky 9-to-5 thing, is the opening section and dwells mainly on interoffice politics, romance and the workweek hangover. A favorite word from "Work": "Bluetoothsome," used to describe someone so good-looking that even wearing a Bluetooth earpiece doesn't really affect his/her hotness (because we all know how lame those things look).

The totality of words you can't wait to add to your urban vernacular pour out of this witty, pocket-size guide to a new generation of slang. Next time your BFF's new boy toy would just love to organize her closet by color and season, you can certainly raise the question of his "manbiguous" orientation. Or, if said boy toy suddenly dumps your BFF, she'll most likely stalk him using some form of "GPX." (Most prefer MySpace.) When BFF discovers he's out from under the manbiguous tag, "Cryday the 13th," the day before Valentine's Day, becomes an even bigger bummer.

The Daily Candy Lexicon also pays homage to our favorite canceled TV show of all time, Arrested Development; and Al Gore ("Al-le-Gore-y: Someone who represents the "abstract" idea of global warming), plus "Priustoric" cars (those from a time before the hybrid wave) and "snow flakes," your notoriously whiny friends who cancel plans for fear of Mother Earth's wrath (read: precipitation).

In all, The Daily Candy Lexicon sums up you, your friends, your boyfriend, your ex-boyfriend and every other person you loathe or love in a way so charming, clever and cute, all the punning just might make you want to go out and make up some new words of your own. Staycation, anyone?

(rebecca.grites@citypaper.net)

Book launch party, Wed., July 9, 6 p.m., free, Robin's Book Store, 103 S. 13th St., 215-735-9600, robinsbookstore.com.