Top Words of the Decade, Top Words of 2009
GLOBAL WARMING is the TOP WORD OF THE DECADE-2000-2009. Here are the top words of the decade according to Global Language Monitor:
1. Global Warming (2000) The most popular word of the decade all the way from 2000-2009
2. 9/11 (2001): The infamous term is still on everyone’s lips.
3. Obama- (2008 )The US President’s name as a ‘root’ word or ‘word stem’
4. Bailout (2008) The Bank Bailout was the first part of the economic crisis.
5. Evacuee/refugee (2005) After hurricane Katrina, refugees became ‘evacuees’
6. Derivative (2007) Financial instrument or analytical tool that caused the Meltdown
7. Google (2007) Founders erroneously spelled the actual word ‘googol’
8. Surge (2007) The strategy that effectively put an end to the Iraq War
9. Chinglish (2005) The Chinese-English Hybrid language looming large as Chinese influence expands
10. Tsunami (2004) Southeast Asian Tsunami took 250,000 lives. Tsunami was confined to geography enthusiast before the calamity struck
11. H1N1 (2009) More commonly known as Swine Flu
12. Subprime ( 2007) Subprime mortgages are now well-known
13. dot.com (2000) The Dot.com bubble had no lifelines, no bailouts
14. Y2K ( 2000) The Year 2000: All computers were to turn to pumpkins at the strike of midnight
15. Misunderestimate (2002) One of the first and most enduring of Bushisms
16. Chad ( 2000) Those Florida voter punch card fragments that the presidency would turn aupon
17. Twitter (2008 ): The buzz word of 2008 that spiraled to 2009
18. WMD (2002) Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction
19. Blog (2003) First called ‘web logs’ which contracted into blogs
20. Texting (2004) Sending 140 character text messages over cell phones
21. Slumdog (2008) Child inhabitants of Mumbai’s slums
22. Sustainable (2006) The key to ‘Green’ living where natural resources are never depleted
23. Brokeback (2004) New term for ‘gay’ from the Hollywood film ‘Brokeback Mountain’
24. Quagmire (2004) Would Iraq War end up like Vietnam, another ‘quagmire’?
25. Truthiness (2006) Steven Colbert’s addition to the language appears to be well-etched
The top words of 2009 according to Global Language Monitor are:
1. Twitter
2. Obama
3. H1N1
4. Stimulus
5. Vampire
6. 2.0
7. Deficit
8. Hadron
9. Healthcare
10. Transparency
11. Outrage
12. Bonus
13. Unemployed
14. Foreclosure
15. Cartel
The Top Phrases of 2009 are:
1. King of Pop: dedicated to Michael Jackson
2. Obama-mania
3. Climate Change
4. Swine Flu
5. Too Large to Fail
6. Cloud Computing
7. Public Option
8. Jai Ho! — A Hindi shout of joy or accomplishment, swung to popularity from the success of Oscar winning ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
9. Mayan Calendar — Consists of various ‘cycles,’ one of which ends on 12/21/2012
10. God Particle — The hadron, believed to hold the secrets of the Big Bang
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Posted by Starwin on 28th December, 2009
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