Cracked by Navin and Rishabh!! Brilliant!
Answer : Word of the Year (chosen by the American Dialect Society)
- Bailout (2008)
- Subprime (2007)
- Pluto-ed (2006)
- Truthiness (2005)
- Red state, Blue state, Purple state (2004)
- Metrosexual (2003)
- WMD (2002)
- 9-11 (2001)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year
- Bailout (2008)
- Subprime (2007)
- Pluto-ed (2006)
- Truthiness (2005)
- Red state, Blue state, Purple state (2004)
- Metrosexual (2003)
- WMD (2002)
- 9-11 (2001)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year
3 comments:
Very nice question....I'd seen this a few weeks ago so I know the answer!!
This is the list of the word of the year as chosen by the american dialect society (http://www.americandialect.org/)
Here is the list of the word of the yrs thru the yrs:
2001 -9/11
2002 - weapons of mass destruction or WMD,
2003 -metrosexual
2004 -red/blue/purple states
2005 -truthiness, what one wishes to be the truth regardless of the facts. (From the Colbert Report on television.)
2006 -to be plutoed, to pluto, to be demoted or devalued, as was the former planet Pluto.
2007 -subprime
2008 -bailout
cheers!!
Word of the year
very nice question :)
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