As we know that language always develop like English language. American English improve their vocabularies in 2011, here is a list of 10 words that entered to the national lexicon or gained new significance over the last year.
- Supercommittee (noun), a colloquial term for congress ‘Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, to forge bipartisan agreement around the debt-ceiling crisis, or given the commitee’s ultimate failure, seemed like an unfortunate misnomer.
- Rapture (noun), the time during the second coming of Christ when the faithful will ascend to heaven.
- Cone of Uncertainty (noun), A recent to buy all of the bottled water at the grocery store. And all corner store. And the sidewalk vendors.
- Endgame (noun), The final actions in a large process. The eagerly awaited roadmap for how the European sovereign debt crisis will play out, thus allowing the rest of the world to breathe easily again.
- Bunga bunga (noun), often used in reference to the sexual exploits of Silvio Berlusconi, former prime minister of Italy.
- Tebow, Tebow is to get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different.
- Gunwalking (gerung), Operation Fast and Furious
- Human microphone (noun), Use megaphone and microphones, a method of communicating.
- Oops (interjection), Expression typically expressing dismay or an apology, often at a mistake.
- Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan (noun), A way of illustrating to one’s voting base that one’s lack of depth on foreign affairs may indeed be a selling point.
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