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Old 06-10-2009, 02:33 AM
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Default Millionth new English word 'due any time now'
Interesting and silly bit of news:

A US company which monitors internet traffic predicts that the millionth new English word is about to be recognised.

Global Language Monitor searches for new words and once a word has been used 25,000 times, it recognises it.

By calculating that a new word is created in English every 98 minutes, it estimate that the millionth word is about to be coined.
read the full article at BBC NEWS | Americas | Millionth English word 'looming'

Is this really something that we should care about???
    
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Old 08-27-2009, 01:06 AM
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hmmm seems that we should do somthing.
English Word should be standard though
many times some words consider right
english. I don't know with the West.
If these millionth new english words are
welcome.???
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