‘Millionth English word’ declared
A US web monitoring firm has declared the millionth English word to be Web 2.0, a term for the latest generation of web products and services.
A U.S.-based language monitoring group Global Language Monitor (GLM) searches for new words on the web, once a word has been used 25,000 times on social networking and other sites, GLM declares it be a new word. GLM said “Web 2.0 appeared over 25,000 times in searches and was widely accepted, making it the legitimate, one millionth word.” Web 2.0 beat out the terms Jai ho, N00b and slumdog to take away the crown.
The terms Jai ho and slumdog came got their existance from the hit movie Slumdog Millionaire, about India’s slum dwellers.
But N00b comes from the gaming community, the company said, explaining that it is used as a disparaging term to describe a neophyte in a particular game.