Monday, December 06, 2004

Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2004

I found this one while going on some random net searches...i dont know how I came to this one but I could remember my first search was the word fimoculous :D

Based on your online lookups, the #1 Word of the Year for 2004 was
Blog noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer.
Click on each of the other words in the Top Ten List for their definitions in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:
2. incumbent
3. electoral
4. insurgent
5. hurricane
6. cicada
7. peloton : noun (1951) : the main body of riders in a bicycle race
8. partisan
9. sovereignty
10. defenestration