The millionth...I didn't even know 'MILLIONTH' was a spellable word...is
WEB 2.0
Does that look like a worthy enough word to be the millionth word in the English language?
With those numbers attached, does it even LOOK like a word?
To me it looks vaguely mathematical, which puts me right off it from the git go.
According to my on-line dictionary of choice it means:
"The second generation of the World Wide Web in which content is user-generated and dynamic, and software is offered that mimics desktop programs."
This isn't a definition. This is a novel.
'WEB 2.0' is also, for those of you firmly in touch with your Virgo tendencies, a noun.
Apparently it takes a word being used 25,000 times to become an actual dictionary worthy word. Obviously 'Web 2.0' has pulled this off.
Luckily, for me anyway, there are worthy dissenters. They are not going to take this lying down. And, in fact, the web monitoring company, Global Language Monitor, who made this pronouncement, is waffling, because it has been pointed out that the announcement of the millionth (there's that word again) word has changed often, and now a decision is made just as the president of the company's book, which deals with the millionth word project, is about to be published.
'Slumdog' was in close running.
I ask you--which looks like a real word-- SLUMDOG or Web 2.0.
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