languagemonitor.com - The Global Language Monitor MILLIONTH WORD ADDED , Welcome to the Million Word March

The English Language WordClock: 1,000,073

THE GLOBAL LANGUAGE MONITOR has been monitoring WORDS FOR A LONG LOGN TIME.

"Global Language Monitor has been tracking English word creation since 2003. Once it identifies new words (or neologisms) it measures their extent and depth of usage with its PQI technology."

List of New English words introduced

Web 2.0: the second generation of the Internet

n00b: a new or inexperienced user, usually with technology

Jai Ho: an exclamation of victory, from Hindi

slumdog: an unkind term for a person who lives in a slum

cloud computing: services delivered via the Internet

carbon neutral: an activity that doesn't produce heat-trapping carbon emissions

Source: Global Language Monitor