“Vuvuzela” – the most Popular Word in 2010
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | November 24, 2010 12:23
This year the English-speaking world often talked about the underwater camera in the Gulf of Mexico, the African reed and global warming. These and other concepts included in the list of most popular words and phrases in English, published by the International Organization of The Global Language Monitor in your site.
“Vuvuzela» (vuvuzela) – Zulu name loud pipes has become famous thanks to the World Cup in South Africa.
“Spillkam» (spillcam or spill-cam) – underwater camera, through which the world saw crude oil flows, erupting from the hole at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico oil platform after an explosion Deep water Horizon.
Moreover, among the most popular words were, the “Hu» (Hu, addressed to President Hu Jintao), «iPad», «3D», «Lady Gaga» (Lady Gaga), «Obamania», «Tea Party” (Tea Party, the name of the populist conservative-libertarian political movement in the U.S.).
Recall that last year, according to the same rating, the most spoken word was Twitter, Obama, and H1N1.
“It is worth noting that the word” vuvuzela “, which became popular in the 2010 World Cup soccer, included in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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