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<P align=left><B><FONT color=#2b6fd5>The Top Ten Words of 2005</FONT></B></P>
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<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>1. Refugee: Though the word was considered politically incorrect in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>, 'refugees' were often considered the lucky ones in streaming away from a series of global catastrophes unmatched in recent memory.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>2. Tsunami: From the Japanese tsu nami for 'harbor wave', few recognized the word before disaster struck on Christmas Day, 2004, but the word subsequently flooded with unprecedented (and sustained) media coverage.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>3. Poppa/Papa/Pope: (Italian, Portuguese, English, many others). The death of beloved Pope John Paul II kept the words on the lips of the faithful around the world.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>4. Chinglish: The new second language of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> from the Chinglish formation: CHINese + EngLISH.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>5. H5N1: A looming global pandemic that could dwarf the Boubonic Plague of the Middle Ages (and AIDS) boggles the comtemporary imagination.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>6. Recaille: A quick trip around the Romance languages (French jargon, scum; Spanish, rabble or swine; Italian, worthless dregs) illustrates the full freight of the word used to describe youthful French rioters of North African and Muslim descent.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>7. Katrina: Name will become synonymous with natural forces responsible for the total and utter descruction of a city.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>8. Wiki: Internet buzzword (from the Hawai'ian wiki wiki for 'quick, quick') that describes collaboration software where anyone can contribute to the on-going effort.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>9. SMS: Short Message Service. The world's youth sent over a trillion text messages in 2005. Currently being texted are full-length novels, news, private messages and everything in between.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>10. Insurgent: Politically neutral term used to describe enemy combatants.</FONT></P>
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<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5><B>The Top Ten Phrases of 2005</B><p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>1. Out of the Mainstream: Used to describe the ideology of any political opponent.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>2. Bird Flu/Avian Flu: the H5N1 strain of Flu that resembles that of the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic where 60 million died. <p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>3. Politically Correct: Emerges as a worldwide phenomenon.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>4. North/South Divide: In the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> it might be Red States and Blue States but globally the 'haves' and 'have nots' are divided by a geographical if not psychological boundary. <p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>5. Purple Thumb: The badge of honor worn by Iraqi voters proving that they voted in their ground-breaking elections.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>6. Climate Change: Or Global Warming. No matter what your political persuasion, the fact remains that <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">New York City</st1:City></st1:place> was under 5,000 feet of ice some 20,000 years ago.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>7. String Theory: The idea that the universe is actually constructed of 11-dimensional, pulsating planes of existence.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>8. The Golden Quatrilateral: <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s new superhighway system that links the key cities of the Subcontinent.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>9. Jumping the Couch. Apparently losing complete emotional control; made popular by the escapades of Tom Cruise on the Oprah television show.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>10. Deferred success: The idea introduced in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> that there is no such thing as failure, only deferred success.</FONT></P>
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<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5><B>The Top Ten Names of 2005</B><p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>1. (Acts of) God: The world watches helplessly as a superpower is humbled as one of its great cities is laid asunder (Hurricane Katrina).<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>2. Tsunami snuffs out nearly 300,000 lives, and an earthquake takes another 200,000 (<st1:place w:st="on">Kashmir</st1:place>). A Higher Power, indeed.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>3. Katrina: Greek ?a?a??? (katharos) for 'pure'. Before the hurricane, the name was borne by two saints, Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, and three of Henry VIII's wives.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>4. John Paul II. The death of beloved Pope John Paul II kept his name on the lips of the faithful around the world.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>5. Wen Jiaba Premier of the People's Republic of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> since March 2003; leading perhaps the largest economic transformation in history.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>6. Saddham Hussein: Should re-read Karl Marx: the first time is history, the second is but farce. <p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>7. Dubya: Every more 'weeble-like': Dubya wobbles but he won't fall down.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>8. Oprah: Now a global phenomenon with an ever-expanding media (and charitable) empire.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>9. Shakira: the Columbian songstress is captivating ever wider circles.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>10. John Roberts: New Chief Justice of the American Supreme Court.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>11. Mahmud Ahmadi-nejad: President of Iran since August 2005; he has recently suggest that the Jewish Homeland be moved to <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>Last year the Top Names were Dubya Rove (W. and Karl Rove), Mel (Gibson) (Michael) Moore, and Saddam Hussein.</FONT></P>
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<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5><B>Top Global Musical Terms</B><p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>1. Reggaeton (pronounced Reggae-TONE): Part Latin, part hip hop, with liberal helpings of Dancehall and <st1:place w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place> music thrown in for good measure, several Reggaeton radio staples this year made their way into the public consciousness.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>2. Baile (pronounced Bye-Lay) Funk: Brazilian dance music that has gained popularity worldwide, championed by such trend-setters as Norman Cook in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>, and Philadelphia DJ Diplo.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5><B>3. Podcast: </B>New broadcast medium; think of it as Tivo for your radio. Even your nighbor is 播客--是Podcasting的中文直译,英文全称为Personal Optional Digital Casting(个人自选数字广播),即将网络信息和自制的节目录到播客网上,播客再收听的整个过程。 <p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>4: Rootkit: Thanks to an overzealous copy-protection scheme, thousands of music fans who tried to encode Sony artists' music onto their computer unwittingly installing a malicious piece of code that exposed their computers to attack. After intense media scrutiny and public outcry, Sony recalled the CD's from shelves and offered free downloads of affected albums.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>5. Live 8: Millions of people tuned in to the sequel to Sir Bob Geldoff's1985 Live Aid benefit, this time to raise awareness of poverty and Third World debt and to pressure countries in the G8 to do something about it. </FONT></P>
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<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5><B>The Top Ten Global YouthSpeak Words</B><p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>1. Crunk: A Southern variation of hip hop music; also meaning fun or amped.<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>2. Mang: Variation of man, as in "S'up, mang?"<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>3. A'ight: All Right, "That girl is nice, she's a'ight"<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>4. Mad: A lot; "She has mad money"<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>5. Props: Cheers, as in "He gets mad props!"<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>6. Bizznizzle: This term for" business" is part of the Snoop Dogg/Sean John-inspired lexicon, as in "None of your bizznizzle!'<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>7. Fully: In Australia an intensive. as in 'fully sick'.)<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>8. Fundo In <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>, Hindi for cool<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>9. Brill! From the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>, the shortened form of brilliant!<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>10. "s'up": Another in an apparently endless number of Whazzup? permutations.</FONT></P>
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<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5><B>The Top Media Stories for 2005</B><p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>1. Death of John Paul II<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>2. South Asian Tsunami<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>3. Hurricane Katrina and its Aftermath<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>4. Pakistani Earthquake</FONT></P>
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<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5><B>The Top Ten Global Media Stories for 2005 </B><p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>1. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>2. The Iraq War and the ongoing story of the Iraqi people <p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>3. Global Warming and Climate Change<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>4. The South Asian Tsunami<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>5. Asian/Bird Flu<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>6. The continuing emergance of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> on the world stage <p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>7. Pakistani Earthquake<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>8. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> as the 'back office' to the industrialized world<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>9. London Subway bombings<p></p></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT color=#2b6fd5>10. French Riots<p></p></FONT></P>
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