Top Ten Words of 2003.
 

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I stumbled across this and thought it worthy of a gig here so if anyone has a word that they think should be included then fire away and post it.



Top Ten Word Lists of 2003 Announced by yourDictionary.com

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http://www.yourdictionary.com/about/topten2003.html

Lists include top 10 words, top 10 names, the latest in YouthSpeak, top phrases, best and worst product names, and more.


Lewisburg, PA. December 26, 2003. yourDictionary.com the Web's most complete language resource, today released its Top 10 Words of 2003, featuring words that have made the news this year. The complete list includes the top phrases, the top names, the best and worst product names, top Enron inspired words, top YouthSpeak words, and others. The full list is available at the company website, yourDictionary.com.

"This year the Iraqi War has dominated the English language as it has dominated the news," said Robert Beard, CEO of yourDictionary.

According to Paul JJ Payack, Chairman of the company, "Embedded was the best word to distill the events of an extraordinary year into 8 simple letters."

The words were chosen by visitors to the company's discussion board, the Agora plus the staff and employees of the company—with the unofficial assistance of the world press corps throughout the year.



Top Ten Words of 2003


1. Embedded: News correspondents embedded in military units suggested to many that news correspondents were in bed with the military.

2. Blog: Web logs have come of age and, regrettably, this lexical mutation with them.


3. SARS: Farm animals strike back at the humans who eat them again with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. The Flu (with a capital "F") is pushing right behind.

4. Spam: This old word now refers to a plague contending with SARS for destructive potential. Could the Flu (with a capital "F") be any worse?

5. Taikonaut: The Chinese astronaut distracted our attention from textiles and copyrights to remind us that China is a rising industrial power.

6. Bushism: This word now has a real possibility for remaining in the language. (Dan Quayle has lost his chance of making solecisms his contribution to political history.)

7. Allision: The National Transportation and Safety Board in investigating the Staten Island ferry tragedy concluded it wasn't a collision (between two moving objects) but an allision (a crash with an immoveable object).

8. Recall: As in California Recall that resulted in the election of Ahh-nold as the Governator.

9. Middangeard: Middle English for Middle Earth in the movies of Tolkien's trilogy, still fascinating millions around the world with its characters and insights into the origins of the English language.

10. Celibacy: The word which holds the key to ending the seemingly eternal scandal of the US Catholic Church.

And yet there is no mention of MOAB? I demand a recount!

I thought WMD would make it, but it technically not a word.

How about "bootylicious"? :p

Pretty dang silly if you ask me. Didn't these people have better things to do with their salaried time?

Shock and Awe, anyone?

Absofuckinglutely

that was interesting...thanks

hmm, i thought asshat would be in there for sure.

Where's "Metrosexual"?

Where is " infrastructure"? It's every hip politician's favorite word.

blog!

i bow to the blog!

Man, some people just have too much time on their hand to go out and count the number of times a single word occurrs...

What about ignoanus? Stupid _and_ an asshole at the same time. Certainly better than "embedded".

I expect we haven't heard the last of "spiderhole" and it's newest meaning. It's the joke word of the past couple weeks at least.

yeah, metrosexual and WMD should have been on ze list.

that should replace spam...

Embedded, Blog, Sars, and spam: I think those words really sum up 2003 for me.


First I've heard of Taikonaut and Allision.

And what about "fo shizzle" finally making main stream? It didn't make the list.

Fo shame.

TILTED for 2004 maybe..........hhmmm

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!