Word Of The Year (american Dialect Society)

1990: " promise, which he did not keep)

1991: Mother Of All (as in Saddam Hussein 's " Mother Of All Battles " promise)

1992: Not! (meaning "just kidding")

1993: Information Superhighway

1994: Cyber , Morph (to change form)

1995: Web , Newt (to act aggressively as a newcomer)

1996: Mom (as in Soccer Mom )

1997: Millennium Bug

1998: e- (as in E-mail )

1999: Y2K

2000: Chad (from the 2000 Presidential Election controversy in Florida )

2001: 9-11 {Link without Title}

2002: Weapons Of Mass Destruction (WMDs) {Link without Title}

2003: Metrosexual {Link without Title}

2004: Red State , Blue State , Purple State (from the 2004 Presidential Election ) {Link without Title}

2005: reportedly includes an entry for this word with one cite in 1824 .

The society also selects words in other categories that vary from year to year, such as Most Unnecessary, Most Outrageous, and Most Likely to Succeed.

''see also American Dialect Society

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