Twitter Deserves Royalty Named 'Top English Word'

A survey shows that the phenomenonal word 'Twitter' used in social networking, has been named the top English word this year.

Texas-based Global Language Monitor put together a list of the top words and phrases and found that the word was more popular than Obama and H1N1, commonly known as the "swine flu".

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Wrapping up the top five words were 'stimulus' and 'vampire', reports the Telegraph.

Founder Paul Payack said: "In a year dominated by world-shaking political events, a pandemic, the after effects of a financial tsunami and the death of a revered pop icon, the word Twitter stands above all the other words.

"Twitter represents a new form of social interaction, where all communication is reduced to 140 characters. Being limited to strict formats did wonders for the sonnet and haiku.

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"One wonders where this highly impractical word-limit will lead as the future unfolds."

The top 15 words were:

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1. Twitter

2. Obama

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3. H1N1

4. Stimulus

5. Vampire

6. 2.0 - as in suffix attached to the next generation

7. Deficit

8. Hadron

9. Healthcare

10.Transparency

11.Outrage

12.Bonus

13.Unemployed

14.Foreclosure

15.Cartel

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