The Words of 2009

Single words, but they speak volumes. These are the words that encapsulate the past year.

New Oxford American Dictionary announced their word of the year, “unfriend.”  Webster’s New World Dictionary went with “distracted driving.”  Here’s my list of the quintessential words of 2009:

• Bailout
• Obama (multi-purpose word – proper noun, adjective, and even curse word for some!)
• H1N1
• Tweet
• Facebook (as a verb – ya know, like, “Just Facebook me and we’ll talk about it.”)
• Green
• Healthcare
• Cloud (as in computing)

What do you think?  What word or words would you suggest as representative of the past year?

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