The 10 ten words of the year according to Merriam-Webster, based on lookups: with del.icio.us and Flickr tags. Also links to currently blank wiki pages and Wikipedia articles.
1. blog: del, flickr, wiki, pedia
2. incumbent: del, flickr, wiki, pedia
3. electoral: del, flickr, wiki, pedia
4. insurgent: del, flickr, wiki, pedia
5. hurricane: del, flickr, wiki, pedia
6. cicada: del, flickr, wiki, pedia
7. peloton: del, flickr, wiki, pedia
8. partisan: del, flickr, wiki, pedia
9. sovereignty: del, flickr, wiki, pedia
10. defenestration: del, flickr, wiki, pedia
These are, of course, very different from the most popular tags. I would love to see a visualization of the relative weight of these words.
1. Alex Halavais on December 10, 2004 4:14 PM writes...
I get most of those. But "defenestration"? Was there a particularly famous defenestration this year? Or are sales of "Gravity's Rainbow" up? (It was GR, yes?) Or is it just a word people look up when they are trying out an online dictionary for the first time?
Permalink to Comment2. Andy on December 10, 2004 4:56 PM writes...
It's used in deliberately obscure help manuals for what are meant to be intuitive interfaces, to mean "move it out of the window". Click my name for words of the year over the last 100 years according to Oxford Dictionaries.
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