And the word of the year is…
Friday, December 30th, 2005pandemic! Would you believe it? It’s hardly the most positive word, but I guess its meaning has been fairly well learnt this year. Lexiteria, an online dictionary, said in its press release:
“According to Dr. Robert Beard, the president of The Lexiteria, the company sought a word that stood out in the press, on the Web, and in conversations in the English-speaking world. “Pandemic” replaced the overused and less specific “epidemic” throughout the English press.