Mark Spenser
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The race for the millionth English word finally comes to an end with Web 2.0 winning it.

The Global Language Monitor, an Austin, Texas-based global language tracker, announced that Web 2.0 has bested Jai Ho, N00b and Slumdog as the 1,000,000th English word or phrase.

Web 2.0 is a technical term meaning the next generation of World Wide Web products and services. It has crossed from technical jargon into far wider circulation in the last six months.

Two terms from India, Jai Ho! and slumdog finished No. 2 and 4. Rounding out the final five were another technical term, cloud computing, meaning services that are delivered via the cloud (or Internet), and a term from the Climate Change debate, carbon neutral.

In addition, the 1,000,001st word is Financial Tsunami - The global financial restructuring that seemingly swept out of nowhere, wiping out trillions of dollars of assets, in a matter of months.

Other words which were added to the list but missed being named as the millionth English word were Sexting, Zombie Banks, Defriend and a few others, all which have met the criteria of a minimum of 25,000 citations with the necessary breadth of geographic distribution, and depth of citations, according to The Global Language Monitor.

At its current rate, English generates about 14.7 words a day or one every 98 minutes, The Global Language Monitor said.

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