Millionth English word any minute now

As I write this some servers in Texas america are frantically calculating what will be the 1,000,000 english word. The company are GLM who do this by tracking the English language and looking for new words and when one has been mentioned 25,000 times it is included. This is not an official word as defined by any dicitionary but is still an interesting measure of how the English language is growing at a phenomenal rate.

I’m not sure what Dr Johnson would have made of this but to quote blackadder I would like to offer GLM my “my most enthusiastic contrafribularities” on their tracking achievement.

Via BBC News Americas.
Thanks to Dr Data (aka Martin Lawson) for emailing this one in.

Posted: June 10th, 2009 | Author: Seth Ball | Filed under: Search, creative, social media | 4 Comments »

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