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The American Dialect Society annual Word(s) of the Year:

Subprime - 2007

Plutoed - 2006

Truthiness - 2005

Red state, blue state, purple state - 2004

metrosexual - 2003

weapons of mass destruction (and its abbreviation WMD) - 2002

9/11 - 2001

chad - 2000

Y2K - 1999

e- (as in e-mail, e-commerce, etc.) - 1998

millennium bug - 1997

mom (as in soccer mom, minivan mom, etc.) - 1996

(tie) World-Wide Web and newt - 1995

(tie) cyber and morph - 1994

Information Superhighway - 1993

Not! - 1992

Mother of All - 1991

Bushlips - 1990

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