In its 20th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted “tweet” (noun, a short message sent via the Twitter.com service, and verb, the act of sending such a message) as the word of the year and “google” (a generic form of “Google,” meaning “to search the Internet) as its word of the decade. The other nominees, for word of the decade included: 9/11; blog; green; text; war on terror and Wi-Fi.
And here are the words least likely to succeed- Any name of the decade 2000-2009, such as Naughties, Aughties, Oughties. What should we call the last decade, anyway?
Here is the full press release (PDF).
