2001: A word odyssey

As the year winds down and Christmas is just a speedbump on the way to 2002 it becomes time for all the 'lists' of stuff from 2001. While I don't care much for the celebrity lists and top ten blooper lists I do like the 'words of the year' lists. The BBC is currently taking votes for the best words of the year in their e-cyclopedia and the American Dialect Society lists its rather disappointing selection of words and is taking nominations with the winners being announced on 4 January 2002. Go on and vote for your own favourite word since I think there are far far better words than 'evil doers' and other post 9/11 [11/9] words that lack flair, long term usefulness or creativity.

One of my favourite words of the year is Techlish which is something like Engrish only a marriage of technical jargon and English.