Google named ‘word of the decade’ by American speech scholars
As reported in the British Telegraph, Google was chosen as the Word of the Decade by the American Dialect Society (ADS) as EVERYONE uses it as a verb these days! Other nominees for Word of the Decade were “9/11″, “Facebook”, “blog”, “text”, “WiFi” and “war on terror”.. though, happily, Google won! You can read the full article here.
The ADS also chose “tweet” as the Word of the Year, edging out the suffix “-er”, “fail”, “H1N1″ (the virus that causes swine flu) and “Dracula Sneeze”, which is covering one’s mouth with the crook of one’s elbow when sneezing. I like “tweet” as it’s happier than “unfriend” which was chosen by the New Oxford English Dictionary though I would have LOVED it if “Dracula Sneeze” had won!
By the way, the image above is Google from Ye Olde Colonial days (courtesy of Google Blogoscoped) and below is an image of Google a little while later, but still Pre-Internet. What do you all think about Google being the word of the decade? Good thing the word wasn’t “duotrigintillion!”
