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A voting poll at the ADS’s headquarters on the 8th of January concluded that Google is the word of the decade and “tweet” is the word of 2009.
With “Google” meaning search the internet and “Tweet” meaning a short message sent though twitter the micro-blogging site.
With every person using both these tools to broadcast and satisfy curiosity via the Internet and being part of the Information Age.
Some people thought the word “blog?” would win word of the decade, but with people preferring to google than blog and with some thinking the word sounded ugly, google won hands down.
Votes were cast by researchers, editors, lexicographers, historians, grammarians, etymologists, students, linguists and writers all ADS’s members.
ADS is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America and founded in 1889, the organization also studies languages and dialects that are influenced by the English language or indeed the influence.
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