Word of the Year: Bailout | The Big Picture
by Tom on December 1, 2008
in Market Musings
The word “bailout,” which shot to prominence amid the financial meltdown, was looked up so often at Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary that the publisher says it was an easy choice for its 2008 Word of the Year.
The rest of the list is not exactly cheerful. It also includes “trepidation,” “precipice” and “turmoil.”
“There’s something about the national psyche right now that is looking up words that seem to suggest fear and anxiety,” said John Morse, president of Springfield-based Merriam-Webster.
Word of the Year: Bailout | The Big Picture.
I wish I could say that this surprised me, but it doesn’t.
Anyone want to venture what they think the word of the year for 2009 is going to be? I’m going to do a post by December 15, 2008 that has what I think the top 5 choices of word of the year for 2009 are going to be and I’m going to set it to go for December 1, 2009 so we can all see how accurate (or totally off base) I was.
