Blog: Most Looked Up Word of 2004

Merriam-Webster puts the word “blog” at the top of its list of the 10 most looked-up words of 2004. The count is determined by tracking all online searches of the dictionary and then excluding perennial look-ups. Here’s the 2004 list:

  1. blog
  2. incumbent
  3. electoral
  4. insurgent
  5. hurricane
  6. cicada
  7. peloton
  8. partisan
  9. sovereignty
  10. defenestration

Here’s how Merriam-Webster defines blog: noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer

Read about the list in CNN’ story “Publisher: ‘Blog’ No. 1 word of the year”. Visit Merriam-Webster for definitions of each of the top 10.

Source: Thanks to Robert Scoble for the info.

Posted by Susannah Gardner on 12/01 at 11:37 AM • Blogging News

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