Web 2.0 Declared the 1 Millionth English Word
Thursday June 11, 2009
Yesterday, the Global Language Monitor announced that 'Web 2.0' is the one millionth word in English. I find this quite exciting as the Web has certainly driven a growth in English language use on a daily basis around the world. Web 2.0 allows literally hundreds of millions of people to communicate - and a huge percentage of that communicating is done in English. So, congratulations to 'Web 2.0'!
Here is a reference guide with pronunciation examples if you'd like to get started on the top 1000 words.
Comments
Last I heard of this, they said there was no way of saying there is definitely 1 million words because there is no proper log of these words. They can only estimate that word would come into use around now.
Also seems very convenient that the 1,000,000th word is so new age and fancy. They would have been embarrassed if the word was something like “chav” or “init”.
Web 2.0 is really good tool to learn English.
The Learning Experience team also give you the Fastest and Comprehensive way to Learn English.
The Web has added a whole new set of words to the language. It’s interesting to look back and see what other pastimes have added to the language. One thing to check out is a book called “off to a Flying Start: Horsing Around the Language” which shows how terminology from horse racing is used in everyday language (i.e., across the board, start from scratch, in a lather, to name a few).
The Difference Between Whereas and But
We use ‘whereas’ in a sentence with 2 different subjects but the same verb.
Example: *Tom *likes Coke, *whereas **Jerry *likes Pepsi. There are 2 different people in this sentence, Tom and Jerry.
We use but in a sentence with the same subject.
Example: Jenny likes pizza, but she doesn’t like spaghetti.
This sentence has only one subject, Jenny.
Hi, Mr Keneath Bear.
I really thank you for announcing us this golden oportunity. but i have a question and its.
How this web works? and how do I have to regester by considering that i live in East Africa.
I am a strong adherent of and proponent for Kenneth’s ESL Blog, but I am extremely doubtful about the very remote likelihood that “Web 2.” can possibly be the millionth word. It should not even qualify as a ‘word’ and would be ridiculously convenient were it found to be the 1,000,000 anything!
Patrick
This is an imprassive stuff. After that, People in the world will surely communicate english as base language in the future. finally I would say congratulation…..
and the one before the millionth word is apparently JAI HO, which comes from Slumdog and means VICTORY in Hindi. Dont ask me how it became an English word
A word is a word, is a word however funny it may sound. Like chutney, masala and v00t, eunoia. There are so many words, as long as it can be used.
Hi,I honestly think that “web 2.0″ should not qualify as a word. It is indeed a combination of a word and a number. That is not serious, specially when other languages are more strict in that regard and do not consider cases like that to be a new word.
Thanks Kenneth. Your site is really stimulating. As for web.2. I really feel
Jai Ho would be better choice. The world needs to echo Jai Ho through the dictionary because of the universal message it conveys.
Arpita.