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Early Nominees for Word(s) of the Year

Posted on April 24, 2008

Last year we had subprime and contained , two words frequently used together as by Bernanke in March 2007: the problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained . Contained became a joke at the end of many posts, and Tanta's brilliant - We're all subprime now! - must have been the phrase of the year (at least for UberNerds). Of course Merriam-Webster chose w00t. Yes, the housing bears owned the housing bulls - again.Reader Matt suggests perfect storm for 2008. He has seen the words perfect storm used to describe the results of 'airlines, food, oil, foreclosures, condo sales,...

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condo sales , foreclosures , housing , oil