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In the latest AWAD mail the Great Anu posted this quote:
"Words are a mirror of their times.
By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest in a given period,
we can form a fairly accurate impression of the chief preoccupations of society at that
time and the points at which the boundaries of human endeavour are being advanced."
-John Ayto, lexicographer (1949- )
It gives one pause.
What are the words you most associate with 2006?
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