Web 2.0 is Millionth English Word
‘Millionth English word’ declared
A US web monitoring firm has declared the millionth English word to be Web 2.0, a term for the latest generation of web products and services.
Global Language Monitor (GLM) searches the internet for newly coined terms, and once a word or phrase has been used 25,000 times, it recognises it.
GLM said Web 2.0 beat out the terms Jai ho, N00b and slumdog to take top spot. from BBC.co.uk
This is probably just an interesting bit of “non-news”, but I thought it was worth posting. It is frightening that anyone with a halfbaked idea and a press release can get on BBC news.
(Thanks to Nelly Cardinale)
