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03 May 09

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The words in the mental cupboard

  • US company Global Language Monitor (GLM) believes that the one millionth word will be added to the English language in mid-June.








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    NEW WORDS/PHRASES





    Airline pulp - airline food



    Cutties - formal Indian term for ladies' underwear



    Noob - neophyte in computer gaming



    Truthiness - having the ring of truth though false






    Source: Global Language Monitor




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    While there is agreement that a word becomes a word when it is used by one person and understood by another, grammarians and lexicographers stand divided when deciding which to include when calculating a total.



    Obamamania, bankster and bloggerati are just some of the "brand new words" GLM has been tracking.

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