"Google" Named Word of the Decade
On Friday, The American Dialect Society announced its word of the year–“Tweet”–and its word of the decade: “google” (note lowercase “g,” indicating a generic form of the company’s name, meaning “to search the Internet”).
Here’s what Grant Barrett, chair of the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society, had to say about the two words: “Both words are, in the end, products of the Information Age, where every person has the ability to satisfy curiosity and to broadcast to a select following, both via the Internet.
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