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Millionth English Word is Announced

Posted June 11, 2009 8:00 AM

From TG Daily - All News:

The millionth word in the English language is Web 2.0, says a US web monitoring firm. Texas-based Global Language Monitor (GLM) searches the internet for new words, and once it has been used 25,000 times, it gives it official word status. GLM makes its money from tracking web coverage for corporations.

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06/11/2009 8:44 AM

That's nice. But it was truly a great day for civilization when the word 'gnarly' was added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate. I sleep much sounder now. (Spell-check even accepted it).
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06/11/2009 9:45 AM

Millionth English Word is Announced bull sh*t more like Millionth English Word recorded for them there are a lot more the one Millionth English Word around. my 4 cents

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06/11/2009 10:00 AM

Ice-Man, I concur! When I saw this story, I thought "there are only a million English words?!"

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06/11/2009 10:13 AM

I acquiesce to your perspicacity.

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06/12/2009 5:19 PM

You're right - it's just the millionth that they counted.

(Personally, I find "web 2.0" is not a word. And if it is a word, could they pick a duller one for the "million"... )

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06/12/2009 2:14 AM

let me get out my dictionary...... 1, 2, 3, etc........ what the hell does web 2.0 mean?

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06/12/2009 7:31 AM

Why is this an engineering news? Nothing else going on in the world worth reporting? How about Dracula sighting next time and the discovery of sock interchageability law?
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