Greece is facing a debt crisis, the government adopted a series of stringent austerity measures, including tax increases and pay the court the public sector.
The move has enraged protests, strikes and riots throughout the country as rising unemployment and the crisis will be prompted to other European countries to do so. The decision also provoked a rush of online dictionaries for those who want a definition.
The severity, the name Century 14 as "the quality or state of being strictly" and "Applied Economics or extreme" defined left enough research Merriam-Webster named the word of the year for 2010, the dictionary editors announced on Monday.
John Morse, president and publisher of Springfield, Massachusetts, Collins said that "rigor" more than 250,000 search queries looked in the dictionary of the free online tool comes with a wide coverage of the debt crisis.
"What we do ... those words, the tips, which largely appears to have as a failure of normal behavior," said Morse. "The word that is actually qualify for this year," austerity. "
Runners also announced Monday, also "pragmatic" moratorium'','' socialism "and" bigot "- the last word in response to the public use of the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, ex-CNN Rick Sanchez NPR host and former Senior Analyst Juan Williams.
were Peter Sokolowski, editor of Merriam-Webster, in general, said this year's top 10 words with information about events or news connected, the editors believe that jumps resulted in prolonged searches.
"Sometimes it is difficult to research a particular event, new, but usually what sparks curiosity, in a word," said Sokolowski.
For example, the "socialism" was searched, the editor of the opinion that supported the basis of media coverage around the Democratic Confederation of rescue and Federal Office of Public Health legislation. And publishers recognize that "pragmatic" is on the move several times after the midterm elections sought.
"Influence" in most of the usual suspects, such as "effect" - by Morse, Dictionary of the website is online more than 500 million searches per year. But he said some words to the dictionary choice of 10 were the words he had hundreds of thousands of signs results.
Also in the top ten was the word "twice". Sokolowski said the word jumped in the search for George Stephanopoulos, the program "Good Morning America" called "Eat, Pray, Love" author Elizabeth Gilbert "Julia Roberts' double. "Gilbert Roberts was instrumental in the film adaptation of the book resembles the author.
"Doppelganger" was also in the popular TV show used "The Vampire Diaries".
"Sometimes needs," said Sokolowski.
The word "wings",''thrilled''dissidents "and" Stealth "lists the best this year.
Allan Metcalf, an English professor at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois, and author of "OK": The biggest story of the American improbable word ", said the list of words shows how different the country is because people are looking for words that are shared.
Socialism "About 20 to 30 years, everyone knows something," said Metcalf, who is also executive secretary of the American Dialect Society. "The same intolerance. The fact that they must be consulted, says something about us."
This applies to words like "struggle", Jenna Porter, professor of English said at the Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, La said, although the editors of Merriam-Webster, fired the search for the word after Barack Obama, had himself and his party "lost" voters in the midterm elections, Porter said that the word is very common in southern Louisiana. "Where am I, that means something like paint for wood," said Porter.
Shana Walton, a professor of languages and literature as Nicholls State University, said understanding how events might have influenced the new dictionary in the list.
"Yes" moratorium "is one of the most popular words," is clearly a reflection of how many times the word in the course of the BP oil spill is used, "said Walton, a linguistic anthropologist, research on oil and land in southern Louisiana." Many people in South Louisiana, has expressed outrage over the moratorium, frankly, to shed on that. "
Metcalf said the American Dialect Society will publish his "Word of the Year" winner in January, but the group is selected by the time a person of the year.
The move has enraged protests, strikes and riots throughout the country as rising unemployment and the crisis will be prompted to other European countries to do so. The decision also provoked a rush of online dictionaries for those who want a definition.
The severity, the name Century 14 as "the quality or state of being strictly" and "Applied Economics or extreme" defined left enough research Merriam-Webster named the word of the year for 2010, the dictionary editors announced on Monday.
John Morse, president and publisher of Springfield, Massachusetts, Collins said that "rigor" more than 250,000 search queries looked in the dictionary of the free online tool comes with a wide coverage of the debt crisis.
"What we do ... those words, the tips, which largely appears to have as a failure of normal behavior," said Morse. "The word that is actually qualify for this year," austerity. "
Runners also announced Monday, also "pragmatic" moratorium'','' socialism "and" bigot "- the last word in response to the public use of the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, ex-CNN Rick Sanchez NPR host and former Senior Analyst Juan Williams.
were Peter Sokolowski, editor of Merriam-Webster, in general, said this year's top 10 words with information about events or news connected, the editors believe that jumps resulted in prolonged searches.
"Sometimes it is difficult to research a particular event, new, but usually what sparks curiosity, in a word," said Sokolowski.
For example, the "socialism" was searched, the editor of the opinion that supported the basis of media coverage around the Democratic Confederation of rescue and Federal Office of Public Health legislation. And publishers recognize that "pragmatic" is on the move several times after the midterm elections sought.
"Influence" in most of the usual suspects, such as "effect" - by Morse, Dictionary of the website is online more than 500 million searches per year. But he said some words to the dictionary choice of 10 were the words he had hundreds of thousands of signs results.
Also in the top ten was the word "twice". Sokolowski said the word jumped in the search for George Stephanopoulos, the program "Good Morning America" called "Eat, Pray, Love" author Elizabeth Gilbert "Julia Roberts' double. "Gilbert Roberts was instrumental in the film adaptation of the book resembles the author.
"Doppelganger" was also in the popular TV show used "The Vampire Diaries".
"Sometimes needs," said Sokolowski.
The word "wings",''thrilled''dissidents "and" Stealth "lists the best this year.
Allan Metcalf, an English professor at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois, and author of "OK": The biggest story of the American improbable word ", said the list of words shows how different the country is because people are looking for words that are shared.
Socialism "About 20 to 30 years, everyone knows something," said Metcalf, who is also executive secretary of the American Dialect Society. "The same intolerance. The fact that they must be consulted, says something about us."
This applies to words like "struggle", Jenna Porter, professor of English said at the Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, La said, although the editors of Merriam-Webster, fired the search for the word after Barack Obama, had himself and his party "lost" voters in the midterm elections, Porter said that the word is very common in southern Louisiana. "Where am I, that means something like paint for wood," said Porter.
Shana Walton, a professor of languages and literature as Nicholls State University, said understanding how events might have influenced the new dictionary in the list.
"Yes" moratorium "is one of the most popular words," is clearly a reflection of how many times the word in the course of the BP oil spill is used, "said Walton, a linguistic anthropologist, research on oil and land in southern Louisiana." Many people in South Louisiana, has expressed outrage over the moratorium, frankly, to shed on that. "
Metcalf said the American Dialect Society will publish his "Word of the Year" winner in January, but the group is selected by the time a person of the year.
