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Words of the Year - from American Dialect Society
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The American Dialect Society annual Word(s) of the Year:
| | Subprime - 2007 |
| | Plutoed - 2006 |
| | Truthiness - 2005 |
| | Red state, blue state, purple state - 2004 |
| | metrosexual - 2003 |
| | weapons of mass destruction (and its abbreviation WMD) - 2002 |
| | 9/11 - 2001 |
| | chad - 2000 |
| | Y2K - 1999 |
| | e- (as in e-mail, e-commerce, etc.) - 1998 |
| | millennium bug - 1997 |
| | mom (as in soccer mom, minivan mom, etc.) - 1996 |
| | (tie) World-Wide Web and newt - 1995 |
| | (tie) cyber and morph - 1994 |
| | Information Superhighway - 1993 |
| | Not! - 1992 |
| | Mother of All - 1991 |
| | Bushlips - 1990 |
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