十年最具影响力英语词google问鼎
2003Word of the Year:
metrosexual, fashion-conscious heterosexual male。
Most Useful: flexitarian, vegetarian who occasionally eats meat。
Most Creative: freegan, person who eats only free food。
Most Unnecessary:freedom for “French,” as in fries and kisses。
Most Outrageous: cliterati, feminist writers or leaders。
Most Euphemistic:pre-emptive self-defense, attack before a possible attack on oneself。
Most Likely to Succeed: SARS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, viral disease first reported in Asia in February。
Least Likely to Succeed: tomacco, poisonous hybrid of tomato and tobacco。
Best Revival of an old term:spider hole, World War II term for a hole deeper than a foxhole used for surprise attacks; in 2003, where Saddam Hussein was hiding。
2002Word of the Year: weapons of mass destruction or WMD, sought for in Iraq。
Most Likely to Succeed:blog, from “weblog,” a website of personal events, comments, and links。
Most Useful:google (verb)， as in “to google someone,” to search the Web using the search engine Google for information on a person or thing。
Most Creative:Iraqnophobia, strong fear of Iraq。
Most Unnecessary:wombanization, feminization, from Alexander Barnes’s book “The Book Read Backwards: The Deconstruction of Patriarchy and the Wombanization of Being。”
Most Outrageous:neuticles, fake testicles for neutered pets。
Most Euphemistic: regime change, forced change in leadership。
2001Word of the Year:9-11, 9/11 or September 11, terrorist attacks on that date。
Most Likely to Succeed:9-11.
Most Useful (tie)：facial profiling, using video “faceprint ” to identify terrorists and criminals, and second-hand speech, cell phone conversations heard by others in public places。
Most Creative: shuicide bomber, terrorist with bomb in shoes。
Most Unnecessary: impeachment nostalgia, longing for the superficial news of the Clinton era。
Least Likely to Succeed: Osamaniac, woman sexually attracted to terrorist Osama bin Laden。
Most Outrageous:assoline, methane used as fuel. Most Euphemistic: daisy cutter, large bomb that explodes a few feet above the ground。
Most Inspirational: Let’s roll! words of Todd Beamer to start the attack that foiled the hijackers of United Flight 93 on September 11.
2000Word of the Year:chad, a small scrap of paper punched from a voting card。
Most Likely to Succeed:muggle, Harry Potter term for a non-wizard; a mundane, unimaginative person。
Most Useful:civil union, legal same-sex marriage。
Most Creative:dot bomb, a failed dot-com。
Most Unnecessary: sudden loss of wealth syndrome。
Least Likely to Succeed: kablokeys, used in phrases like “It scared the kablokeys out of me。”
Most Outrageous: wall humping, rubbing a thigh against a security card scanner to allow access without removing the card from one's pocket。
Most Euphemistic:courtesy call, an uninvited call from a telemarketer。
Brand New(coined during the year, not previously attested)： unconcede, to rescind a concession as presidential candidate Al Gore did on election night. (It was later discovered that candidate Bob Dole had unconceded the presidential election in 1996, and there were occasional instances of that word going back several centuries。)
每一年，美国方言协会(ADS)都会选出当年最热门、最具影响力的英语词汇，而过去十年间的No.1是谁呢？最终“Google”赢得了这一殊荣，不过注意这里它不是那家搜索引擎公司，而已经是个通用动词，意思是利用Google搜索引擎在WWW上查找资料。
和Google一起入围最终决赛圈的其他五个候选词汇是：“9/11”(九一一事件)、“green”(绿色节能)、“blog”(博客)、“text”(短信)、“war on terror”(反恐战争)。
回到2002年，当时的年度词汇是“weapons of mass destruction”(大规模杀伤性武器)，而Google被选为最有用的，blog则是最有潜力的。2006年年中，《牛津英语词典》和《韦氏词典》陆续将Google收录为动词。如今，我们已经很难想象没有Google的世界。
十年来最火热的词汇大多数都是互联网造就的，但也有很多来自政治或者媒体，或者二者兼而有之，比如出自美国大选的“red state”(支持共和党的红色之州)和“blue state”(支持民主党的蓝色之州)。
以下是过去十年的年度英语词汇：
2000：Chad、Courtesy call、Civil union、Nader traitor
2001：9/11、Suicide bomber、Ground zero、Misunderestimate
2002：WMD、Google(动词)、Blog、Amber alert、Regime change
2003：Metrosexual、Embed、SARS、Pre-emptive self defense
2004：Red state、blue state、purple state、Flip-flopper、Phish、krunked
2005：Truthiness、Katrina、Podcast、Sudoku
2006：Plutoed、Macaca、YouTube、Lactard、waterboarding
2007：Subprime、Facebook、Green-(前缀)、Truther、Toe tapper
2008：Bailout、Barack Obama、Change、maverick、Shovel ready、TWD (texting while driving)、Bromance、Terrorist fist jab
2009：Tweet、-er(后缀)、Fail、Public option、H1N1、Death panel、Sexting
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