1. Global Warming (2000)
Rated highly from Day One of the decade
2. 9/11 (2001)
Another inauspicious start to the decade
3. Obama (2008 )
The US President’s name as a ‘root’ word or ‘word stem’
4. Bailout (2008) The Bank Bailout was but Act One of the crisis
5. Evacuee/refugee (2005)
After Katrina, refugees became evacuees
6. Derivative (2007)
Financial instrument or analytical tool that engendered the Meltdown
7. Google (2007)
Founders misspelled actual word ‘googol’
8. Surge (2007)
The strategy that effectively ended the Iraq War
9. Chinglish (2005)
The Chinese-English Hybrid language growing larger as Chinese influence expands
10. Tsunami (2004)
Southeast Asian Tsunami took 250,000 lives
11. H1N1 (2009)
More commonly known as Swine Flu
12. Subprime (2007)
Subprime mortgages were another bubble to burst
13. dot.com (2000) The Dot.com bubble engendered no lifelines, no bailouts
14. Y2K ( 2000)
The Year 2000: all computers would turn to pumpkins at the strike of midnight
15. Misunderestimate (2002)
One of the first and most enduring of Bushisms
16. Chad ( 2000)
Those Florida voter punch card fragments that the presidency would turn aupon
17. Twitter (2008 )
A quarter of a billion references on Google
18. WMD (2002)
Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction
19. Blog (2003)
First called ‘web logs’ which contracted into blogs
20. Texting (2004)
Sending 140 character text messages over cell phones
21. Slumdog (2008)
Child inhabitants of Mumba’s slums
22. Sustainable (2006)
The key to ‘Green’ living where natural resources are never depleted
23. Brokeback (2004)
New term for ‘gay’ from he Hollywood film ‘Brokeback Mountain’
24. Quagmire (2004)
Would Iraq War end up like Vietnam, another ‘quagmire’?
25. Truthiness (2006)
Steven Colbert’s addition to the language appears to be a keeper
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Source: The Global Language Monitor
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