Top Words of 2007

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'Hybrid' is Top Word, 'Climate Change' is Top Phrase, and 'Gore' is Top Name atop the Global Language Monitor's (www.Languagemonitor.com) annual global survey of the English language. The Top Smiley is ?-) for ''pirate'. The most understood word on the planet is the word OK. And the estimated number of words in the English language is 995,115, just 4,884 from the million-word mark.

"The idea of planetary peril and impending climatic doom resonated throughout our linguistic analysis, with the various words and phrases garnering hundreds of millions of citations; in the end this narrowly outdistanced the word 'surge' that also had a disproportionate impact upon 2007's linguistic landscape." said Paul JJ Payack, President of The Global Language Monitor. For 2007 these words were culled from throughout the English-speaking world which now numbers some 1.35 billion speakers and and now includes such diverse cultures as China, the Philippines, and India.

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