美国网络词典门户网站发布了2002年流行英语词汇Top 10排行榜，包括：Top Ten Words, September 11, People's Names, California YouthSpeak, Top Phrases, Corporate¹ Buzzwords, Sports, Best & Worse Corporate Name Changes, Internet-related, and more.
Top Ten Words of 2002

1. Misunderestimate What President Bush’s opponents have learned not to do, in his own word.

2. Survivor² This time an uplifting story about Pennsylvania coal miners and not a ‘reality TV’ series. .

3. Listeria A new danger found lurking³ in our food, named for the same man (Joseph Lister) who invented the surgical⁴ antiseptic now used as a mouthwash, Listerine.

4. Perp-walk The parading of criminals in handcuffs before the cameras. It made the news only as some of the nation's most distinguished⁵ faces began appearing there.

5. Bandwidth What people are increasingly out of, a computer term now applied⁶ to modern life.

6. Sniper As around the Beltway. The US discovered that terrorists do not have a monopoly on terror.

7. To nasdaq As in, "His fortune was nasdaqued." The bubble of the mid-to-late ‘90s returns to reality and adds a worthy⁷ item to our vocabulary.

8. Warlords The freedom fighters of an earlier era today are now a threat to delicate Afghani democracy.

9. Issue A great new euphemism⁸ for problem, fault or any other type of misstep; we no longer repair the fault, we simply ‘resolve’ the issue.

10. Pedophilia Not the love of feet, though it has rocked the Catholic Church to its foundations.