Word of the Year: OCCUPY

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(CNN) -- The linguists have spoken and they have decided -- "Occupy" is 2011's word of the year.

Members of the American Dialect Society came out in record numbers to vote Friday night at the organization's annual conference, held this year in Portland, Oregon.

"Occupy" won a runoff vote by a whopping majority, earning more votes than "FOMO" (an acronym for "Fear of Missing Out," describing anxiety over being inundated by the information on social media) and "the 99%," (those held to be at a financial or political disadvantage to the top moneymakers, the one-percenters).

Occupy joins previous year's winners, "app," "tweet," and "bailout."

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@Lustig Andrei,

How so? They don't give any examples. Seems a perfectly commonplace word to me.

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@McTag,

I'm presuming that it refers to the Occupy Wall Street movement and the various "occupy this" and "occupy that" offshoots of that movement that prevailed this past summer in the USA. As such, of course, it is a quite parchoial selection.

Here's another word of the year:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/word-of-the-year-2011-tergiversate_n_1119524.html

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@Lustig Andrei,

Merriam-Webster, the dictionary publishers, says the word of the year is 'pragmatic.'

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57343454/merriam-webster-names-pragmatic-word-of-2011/

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@Lustig Andrei,

Oh yes. Silly of me. We've got quite a few occupiers of public spaces here too, in London, Glasgow and elsewhere.

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