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Word of the Decade?

The Red Robin
The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
edited December 2009 in Not Sports Related
Is there a word that sums up the decade?

I'll offer Terrorism as it seems to have been an excuse for anything following 9/11. Two wars, increasing surveillance, more bureaucracy, unjust hostility to some immigrants and Islam and no doubt has contributed to the "global" recession in some ways.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8396281.stm
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  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Pandemic

    every thing that comes along is a Pandemic
  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    Credit - Everything, certainly in the UK, has been built on the never-never
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,333
    I think 'cool' and 'wicked' are two words of the decade. In her teens, my daughter could hold a 30 minute telephone conversation only using these two words.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Collateral as in damage as in sorry we wiped out three dozen innocent goat herders who happened to be the way of a cruise missile aimed at a suspected terrorist who it turns out wasn't there anyway. Closer to home there's sub-prime if you are allowed hyphenated words.
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    Urban
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    given the apathy shown by the citizens of the UK for most thing other than soap operas, celebrities, reality TV and Talent(less) shows I think the most appropriate word to sum up the decade is


    BOVVERED?
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,824
    Social Networking

    Credit Cruch

    Weapons of Mass Destruction

    Metrosexual

    Quantative Easing

    Diversify

    Bailout

    Hoody

    ASBO

    Numpty
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    Takeover
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,824
    Carbon Footprint

    Islamification
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,824
    Meh

    Simples
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  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    I find the way languge is now used to obscure the real meaning of what is being said worrying too.

    The now common use of terms such as rendition, redaction, insurgent, etc are a few that come to mind.

    I've changed my mind.

    The word of the decade should be MISLED
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,954
    Laters
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,975
    Shite
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,954
    The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

    And the winners are:

    1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.

    2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.

    3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

    4. Esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.

    5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.

    6. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.

    7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.

    8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.

    9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.

    10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.

    11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.

    12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

    13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.


    14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

    15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

    16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men
  • RalphMilnesgut
    RalphMilnesgut Posts: 1,751
    Random
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Bouncebackability
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    I'll offer up "...gate" - as in any sort of scandal, no matter how serious, must now end with it.
  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,587
    Chav
  • Atletico Addick
    Atletico Addick Posts: 5,843
    Girugamesh
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,954
    Relegation
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  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    Dude (for MCS)
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    Spare (for MCS)
  • 101
    101 Posts: 2,456
    i would say two words CLIMATE CHANGE.
  • DaveStorry
    DaveStorry Posts: 989
    sky
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,954
    CHARLTON LIFE
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    innit
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    chav
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    doh
  • uncle
    uncle Posts: 4,209
    Insania
  • vancouveraddick
    vancouveraddick Posts: 1,674
    Over here at least 90% of the population under 30 seem to think that the word "like" should be used at least five times in a sentence when speaking. It's like listening to a bunch of North American scousers.

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