A word by any other name is not a word

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

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Published on June 09, 2009 20:11
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