Google is awarded the mightiest of titles: it's Word of the Decade!
Joining 'unfriend' (the Word of 2009), 'Google' has just been dubbed the Word of the Decade by the American Dialect Society. It's probably the first time you've ever heard of the American Dialect Society (founded in 1889!), and almost certainly the last... until 2020!
There was also voting for a variety of other categories (PDF): tweet was voted their word of 2009 (even though the Oxford ...





