The English language acquired its one millionth word today.
Sort of.
According to the Global Language Monitor, a website that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created, the word Web 2.0 was added at 5:22 AM ET, making it the one millionth word in the English language.
Need I point out that Web 2.0 isn’t an actual word but a phrase used to describe the social nature of the current iteration of the Internet?
Or that the “word” Web 2.0 is about four years old? Why has
Published on June 09, 2009 20:11