And The One Millionth English Word Is …
Doo Do Do Doo Dooo Dooooo !!! … Web 2.0
For the last few months boffins have been somewhat excited (bless them) about what word will take pride of place as the English languages official one millionth word.
According to Global Language Monitor, a Texas-based global language tracker, the word Web 2.0 was officially unveiled this week as the one millionth word.
It looks like Internet jargon was always going to become the 1 millionth word however with the other words that were added but just missing out on being the one millionth word being: noob, which means a newbie in a community; defriending, which means to cut off a social networking friend; sexting, which means sending email or texts with sexual content; and cloud computing, where users access services over the Internet.
The word which means “next generation of the web” and is often used when discussing social networks like Twitter, Myspace, etc however poses me a couple of issues…
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m pleased such a forward thinking word has become apart of such a landmark occasion, but frankly is web 2.0 one word? Surely if it was one word it would be web2.0 and if you want to be really anal about it - “Web two point zero” is three or four words (depending upon whether you count the point) is it not?
I feel a bit conned if I’m honest, but as always, I’ll shut up now ….
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