Why the “millionth word” story is silly
Posted in Bad Linguistics, News, Orthography, Uncategorized, Words on June 12th, 2009 1 Comment »
On Wednesday the Global Language Monitor “announced” that English got its one-millionth word at precisely 10:22 am GMT that day. And the word was Web 2.0, so naturally, blogs such as Mashable, John Battelle’s Searchblog, and TechCrunch took notice.
Now, The Name Inspector realizes that the “millionth word” story is a ridiculous play for attention that’s [...]




