June 10, 2009
Spurious but nevertheless entertaining PR revelation of the week is the much-hyped 'millionth word in the English language' - at least as decided by the Global Language Monitor (GLM), an association that tracks the use of new words (no, Guru has never heard of them before either).
The geeky winner was 'Web 2.0', a term which refers to the second generation of web development, entering the lexicon at 10.22am on June 10 (GLM says a new word is coined every 98 minutes, although most of us get by with an everyday vocabulary of about 14,000 words).
Words previously hotly tipped to hit the coveted million mark included 'defriend' (knock someone off your mySpace/Facebook etc etc friends list) and 'noob' - an uber-nerdy but rather pleasing word in Guru's opinion, which is apparently a derogatory term for those new to the online gaming community. Who knew.
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