One millionth English word to be unveiled

The milestone will be passed on Wednesday according to the Global Language Monitor, an association of academics that tracks the use of new words.
The widespread popularity of English as a second language in Asia has brought about the most fertile period of word generation since William Shakespeare's time with new terms coined on average every 98 minutes, the Texas-based group claims.


It acknowledges new words once they have been used 25,000 times by media outlets, on social networking websites and in other sources.
The terms it is currently monitoring which could take English to the one million threshold include "defollow" and "defriend", words describing what users of websites like Twitter and Facebook to do contacts with whom they do not wish to stay in touch.
Another internet word "noob" – a derogatory name for someone new to a particular task or community – is also in the running, along with "greenwashing" (what companies do to appear environmentally friendly) and "chiconomics" (recession fashion).
Paul Payack, chief analyst at the Global Language Monitor, said: "Despite having a million words at our disposal it is unlikely that we will ever use more than just a tiny fraction of them.
"The average persons vocabulary is fewer than 14,000 words out of these million that are available. A person who is linguistically gifted would only use 70,000 words."

So how is your vocabulary then... are you gifted or just "Average"...

Sucks!!! I am the pits in the cherries bowl :help:

You've got an excuse - you're Italian !!!! and your vocabulary is very very good... :) in both languages....

LOL...and don't you go thinking I do not use the excuse for my lack of skills in both!!! :-)

Cover blown my friend.....LOL :-)

ooops!!!

Ciao Bellisima

E il mio parere!

possiamo riavere su pista?

Why should we 'come back on track'?? - being on a tangent keeps us interested :PMSL: - not only that - but it amuses Bug and I when everybody else are in their beds and we are left to our own devices!!!

okay you win - back to the millionth ENGLISH word - before you 'defollow' or 'defriend' us .....................LOL (isn't that 2 words duh!!!!!!)

alpbach1 wrote:possiamo riavere su pista?

Possiamo tornare in pista? sounds a bit better... and lets
..... but is so much more fun to transgress!!!

We could try German! in italian I have no chance!

komisch für mich..........

I'm so happy to be amusing you....now who was it said 'lets get back on the track'....... 8)