This always interests me--every year Merriam-Webster has a vote for their word of the year.
Here are the results from 2008.
1. bailout (noun)
a rescue from financial distress
And the runner ups
And the runner ups
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9 comments:
now why does that not surprise me?
take care Jess :)
blog out ..:P..this word i created..it means addicted to blogging :)...there are no runner ups in my dictionary :) hehe..
have a gr8 week :)..
urs..hemu..
That's definitely the word of the year. Sadly.
Why cant it be fluffy bunny's?
Oh, yeah, that is two words...
I don't get it. How do they chose? I mean is there a certain criteria to get voted word of the year?
I like trepidation way better than bailout ;)
bipartisan and maverick are gonna make me lose my cookies here soon...
Arv,
It really didn't surprise me either! lol
Hemu,
You may really be blog out! :D
Real Live,
Unfortunately, yes. :(
Lori,
haha! I'm with you! :)
Dawn,
LOL-some sort of user vote I think! :)
Gary,
lol, I know, right?
If they chose based on which words were the most overused in 2008, I agree. I fully expect "stimulus" to be the Word of 2009.
Malcolm,
Yeah, I bet you'd win a bet with that one! :)
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