2003年Top10美国流行英语词汇
Lewisburg, PA. December 26, 2003. yourDictionary.com the Web's most complete language resource, today released its Top 10 Words of 2003, featuring words that have made the news this year. The complete list includes the top phrases, the top names, the best and worst product names, top Enron inspired words, top YouthSpeak words, and others. The full list is available at the company website, yourDictionary.com.
"This year the Iraqi War has dominated the English language as it has dominated the news," said Robert Beard, CEO of yourDictionary.
Top Ten Words of 2003 1. Embedded1 News correspondents embedded in military units suggested to many that news correspondents were in bed with the military. 2. Blog
Web logs have come of age and, regrettably, this lexical mutation2 with them.
3. SARS Farm animals strike back at the humans who eat them again with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome3. The Flu (with a capital "F") is pushing right behind. 4. Spam This old word now refers to a plague contending with SARS for destructive potential. Could the Flu (with a capital "F") be any worse? 5. Taikonaut The Chinese astronaut distracted our attention from textiles and copyrights to remind us that China is a rising industrial power. 6. Bushism This word now has a real possibility for remaining in the language. (Dan Quayle has lost his chance of making solecisms his contribution to political history.) 7. Allision The National Transportation and Safety Board in investigating the Staten Island ferry tragedy concluded it wasn't a collision (between two moving objects) but an allision (a crash with an immoveable object). 8. Recall As in California Recall that resulted in the election of Ahh-nold as the Governator. 9. Middangeard Middle English for Middle Earth in the movies of Tolkien's trilogy, still fascinating millions around the world with its characters and insights into the origins of the English language. 10. Celibacy4 The word which holds the key to ending the seemingly eternal scandal of the US Catholic Church.
Top Ten Personal Names of 2003 1. Saddam Hussein Just crawled out of the Spider-Hole and back into the spotlight5. 2. W. (Dubya)
Can't talk his way out of the news. (See the Top Bush Mispronunciations below.)
3. Rush Limbaugh How many pills actually fit into a cigar box? 4. Martha Stewart Not really 'cooking the books' but not quite kosher, either. 5. Pvt. Jessica Lynch Her rescue enthralled6 the nation desperate for good news. 6. Howard Dean The doctor from nowhere now has the team with the roadmap from nowhere to the White House-Clinton-Gore. 7. Pope John Paul II 25 years in the Papacy have taken their toll7 but he is still with us. 8. Ahh-nold That's California's new Governator after cruising over the Count of Bustamante in the recall election. 9. Paris Hilton The heiress, apparently8 named after one of her grandfather's hotels, landed a job on the Fox Network with the Internet distribution of her 'extracurricular activities'. 10. Hans Blix Whose "hans" seem to be tied in his search for the elusive9 WMDs.
Top Ten Youthspeak Words 1. What Up? Present incarnation of the ever popular: Wassup? 2. Give it up!
Replaces the square: please applaud for?/P>
3. Shut up! YouthSpeak for 'Really?' 4. Stog Cigarette, short for 'stogey'. 5. SNAG Sensitive New-Age Guy. 6. Hottie Object of affection, either personally or in the cultural milieu10. 7. Poppins Perfect, as in 'Mary Poppins is perfect in every way.' 8. Tricked Out Souped-up. 9. Rice Rockets Tricked out Japanese compacts, as opposed to American 'muscle' cars. 10. Side Show Temporarily cordoning11 off a freeway to perform outrageous12 car stunts13 in tricked-out rice rockets.
Top Phrases of 2003
1. Shock-and-Awe Remember the initial strategy of the Iraqi War? There was probably more of this when we watched Saddam Hussein emerge from his 'spider-hole.' 2. Rush to War Something the US was accused of by our allies and the slogan of liberals attacked by Limbaugh. 3. Tire Pressure Announced the imminent14 disintegration15 of the Space Shuttle. 4. Weapons of Mass Destruction (or WMD). The reason given for the Rush to War. Removing a genocidal maniac16 wasn't reason enough? 5. 16 Words "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Always check your sources. 6. Guantanamo Bay The US Justice and Defense17 Departments thought they would "Gitmo" cooperation from suspected terrorists off shore. 7. Spider-Hole Looks like this one is going to stick around for a while: Sen. Lieberman is already accusing Howard Dean of 'crawling into a spider-hole of denial'. (Don't step in that.) 8. Tipping Point When any topic moves from one level to the next or the state of a politician one word (or drink) away from falling flat on his face. 9. Angry Left The early followers18 of Howard Dean seem to have frightened him to the center. 10. Halliburton Energy Services Vice19 President Cheney's old company was supplying our fighting men and women with fuel at enlightened prices before the dust settled in Iraq (if it has settled yet).
5 Top Mispronunciations by President Bush in 2003 1. a-MERR-ca a-MER-i-ca (America) 2. NEW-cue-ler NEW-clee-er (nuclear) 3. JU-ler-ee JU-wel-ree (jewelry) 4. Anzar Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar 5. Ne-VAH-duh Ne-VAE-duh) (Nevada)
Best New Product Names 1. Way Cool For concerned parents, this car window shade actually begins to turn white when the temp hits 85?F. 2. Thermos20 Fire + Ice Grill21 2 Go Transportable gas grill and cooler in one unit. 3. Chronospan Storage software that protects all your data all the time. 4. iTunes Music Store Apple's Napster-like site for downloadable music.
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