"A good newspaper," Arthur Miller observed in 1961, "is a nation talking to itself."
Nearly 50 years later, Miller's missive still rings true -- though now that we're no longer constricted to a once-a-day paper, the conversation's moving fast enough for us to need a list to help remember what was worth talking about in the first place. That's where the Global Language Monitor Survey comes in handy. The Texas-based survey uses a math formula to track the frequency of words and phrases in the English-speaking world of more than 1.58 billion people.
Nearly 50 years later, Miller's missive still rings true -- though now that we're no longer constricted to a once-a-day paper, the conversation's moving fast enough for us to need a list to help remember what was worth talking about in the first place. That's where the Global Language Monitor Survey comes in handy. The Texas-based survey uses a math formula to track the frequency of words and phrases in the English-speaking world of more than 1.58 billion people.
Remember good old H1N1? That topped the list in 2009, along with Twitter and Obama. Now swine flu is but a distant memory.
Let's hope the same can be said for this year's winner. One "spillcam" a generation is just fine by me.
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