Top 10 Words of 2009
by TexasGOPVote on December 31, 2009 at 10:22 AM
The Global Language Monitor has recently announced the top words of 2009. The top 10 include:
- Twitter — The ability to encapsulate human thought in 140 characters
- Obama — The word stem transforms into scores of new words like ObamaCare
- H1N1 — The formal (and politically correct) name for Swine Flu
- Stimulus — The $800 billion aid package meant to help mend the US economy
- Vampire — Vampires are very much en vogue, now the symbol of unrequited love
- 2.0 — The 2.0 suffix is attached to the next generation of everything
- Deficit — Lessons from history are dire warnings here
- Hadron — Ephemeral particles subject to collision in the Large Hadron Collider
- Healthcare — The direction of which is the subject of intense debate in the US
- Transparency — Elusive goal for which many 21st c. governments are striving