Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Blog declared Word of the Year

Although "inumbant" won this year's U.S. presidential election, it was beaten by "blog" in this year's Mirriam Webster.com's race for word of the year! Their top ten list in order:

1. blog
2. incumbent
3. electoral
4. insurgent
5. insurgent
6. cicada
7. peloton
8. partisan
9. sovereignty
10. defenestration

1 comment:

dukeness said...

probably a cape (cut and paste error), but #5 is hurricane. Of course, it was all over the map in Florida (didn't need a recount).