Friday, June 12, 2009

english reaches million word mark




http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/english-language-reaches-one-million-mark-with-web-20/article1176512/

"The winner - an expression for the next generation of the internet – narrowly defeated far jazzier choices, such as n00b (spelled with two zeroes), a variation on rookie, and “Jai ho” – a Hindi exclamation meaning victory."

"Mr. Payack's site tracks speech patterns and emerging words in English, the world's most common language, with 1.5 billion speakers, and its fastest growing."

D: IT'S! That is twice in one week the Globe and Mail could not figure that out!
My god...
For the love of all things holy, proof-read!!!!!!!!!!!
I miss the old black and white newspaper.
Nothing said "snob" quite like that.
And the money saved on colour ink could instead be used for quality of content.

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