Chris Nicholson's Writing Weblog
June 13, 2009 • Saturday
A Texas-based Internet company that tracks word usage throughout the media and the World Wide Web claimed this week that the English language was due to garner its 1 millionth word.
The group's criterion for a new word is that they must find it used 25,000 times. Suspected "winners" were "defriend," "noob" and "chiconomics."
Instead, our millionth word turned out to be "Web 2.0."
(Sounds a little gimmicky to me; I find it hard to believe that that term didn't find 25,000 usages before this week.)
See the Telegrath's article, "Millionth word in the English language - Web 2.0."
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