The year 2011 brought many words and phrases to prominence.
Occupy captured a lot of attention, but there are so many more.
Linguist Daniel Midgley brings the words that captured the essence of our year on this episode of Talk the Talk.
And this episode is kind of special, because this is the one where Stacy Gougoulis started the tradition of saying “Word!” at the beginning of the show.
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The American Dialect Society has spoken!
http://www.americandialect.org/occupy-is-the-2011-word-of-the-year
Global Language Monitor’s list, if you can be bothered.
http://kut.org/2011/12/the-top-words-of-2011-2/
Although ‘grief bacon’ was kind of interesting.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/word-of-the-year-2011-choose-your-favourite/story-e6freuzr-1226217271438
The “job creators” meme seems to date from about June 2011.
http://www.google.com/trends/?q=job+creators
