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'Google' (verb) is the word of the decade

article published on 9 January, 2010

According to the American Dialect Society, the term Google (when used as a verb), is the top of word of the last decade, beating out "green," "blog," "text," "9/11," and "war on terror" for the honor. "It's hard to imagine life before we were Googling," American Dialect Society executive council member Ben Zimmer says. In 2002, "Google" was voted as "most useful" by the Society, and ... [ read the full article ]

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Morreale
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_ 		10. January 2010 @ 02:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm surprised it beat text. And I didn't quite understand how "green" was a popular word, but I guess they mean along with pro-environmental terms like "going green", since that seems to be what everything is about today...

MISUNDERESTIMATE! How the hell did that idiot get in for a second term? He shouldn't have even had a first!
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attar
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_ 		10. January 2010 @ 09:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Marge Simpson thought it meant something else altogether.
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