Most popular words: “Twitter” wins Obama and H1N1

The main word of English this year was the name of the popular social network Twitter. It surpassed the popularity of the name of the American president and the scientific name of swine flu, indicate data research firm Global Language Monitor, informs edition The Telegraph.

U.S. company Global Language Monitor is based on regular monitoring of the Internet and English-speaking media rating of the most popular words and phrases. The main word in English this year, researchers identified the word “Twitter”, it was much more popular than the word “Obama” and “H1N1″ (second and third places).

In the fourth place got the word “promotion”, 5 th – “Vampire”. This is followed by “2.0″ (meaning “the next generation), the word” deficit “,” Hadron “,” health “,” transparency “,” flagrant violation of (human), “bonus”, “unemployed”, “foreclosures mortgage “and” block “(” cartel “,” agreement between the warring parties and factions “).

“This year, when the dominant words associated with political events, pandemics, economic tsunami and the death of pop idol, the word” Twitter “stands above all others.” Twitter “displays a new form of social interaction, when a message is limited to 140 characters. This strict restriction revived genre of the sonnet and haiku. I wonder what it will lead us in the future “, – commented on the results of studies Head Global Language Monitor Gender Peyak.

Recently, researchers from the Global Language Monitor named as the main words, on U.S. television, said lenta.ru. First place in the rating took the word “ObamaVidenie” that television media use to describe the “hope and change” promised by U.S. President Barack Obama. Second place was the phrase “financial collapse”, but on the third line is located “Michael Jackson”. King of pop music, died on June 25 this year at the 51 th year of life, he was buried in Los Angeles on September 3.

Fourth place in the TV word list in 2009 under the version of Global Language Monitor inherited “by Susan Boyle – 48-year-old” old maid “of Scotland, which became a sensation in this suit by participating in the TV show” Britain is looking for talent. ” Locked the five leaders “Hulu.com” – a site created by NBC Universal, Fox Entertainment Group and ABC Inc., Giving users free access to the most popular TV.

Also this year, The Global Language Monitor made a rating of words characterizing the beginning of the XXI century. The first three places, according to researchers, belong to the words “global warming”, “September 11″ and “Obama”, reported The Telegraph.