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Kate Middleton Surpasses Lady Di as the Most-Mentioned Royal in the Media

There are still eight days before Kate Middleton officially joins the royal family, but the princess bride is already becoming more popular than her famous crowned kin -- even the late Princess Diana. The Global Language Monitor, a Texas company that tracks word usage trends around the world, has just released a study...

'Guido' and 'Gaga' Among Top Media Buzzwords

(Sept. 16) -- Unless you've been living under a rock, the words "BP spill cam," "Guido" and "Lady Gaga" have crossed your lips at one point or another during the past 12 months. Those three little words -- and a bunch of others -- have just been declared this year's top buzzwords by the Global Language Monitor, a...

2009 Word of the Year: Twitter

(Nov. 30) -- "Twitter" has been named the "Top Word of 2009," beating out such contenders as "vampire," "H1N1" and "Obama." According to the Global Language Monitor, a Texas company that tracks word usage on the Internet, the name of the popular microblogging Web site was the most attention-grabbing word of the...

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04/04/12 Colleges, Ranked by 'Media Buzz' Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education A savvy enrollment manager once told me that a crucial part of his job was getting his college's name in newspapers and magazines.
03/16/12 Top Tech Buzzwords You Use But Can't Define [VIDEO] Source: New Zealand City Do you really know what "The Cloud" means?
09/21/11 "Royal wedding", "winning" are the top TV words Source: Times Live - South Africa The rantings of the former Two and A Half Men actor beat Arab Spring and Simon Cowell's The X Factor singing show when it came to dominating TV screens in the official 2010-11 US TV season, the Global Language Monitor said.
09/09/11 The Most Buzzworthy Schools Source: The Huffington Post - Local Oh, it's your college, being talked about on the internet.
11/15/10 Oil spill, âJersey Shore,' Palin inspire top words... Source: The Toronto Star - Toronto ON - Canada The top words of 2010 as identified by the Global Language Monitor , the Texas-based organization that documents, analyzes and tracks trends in language, include: spillcam, vuvuzela, the narrative, refudiate, Guido and Guidette, simplexity and snowmaggeden and snowpocalyspe.

Background on The Global Language Monitor

The Global Language Monitor (GLM) is an Austin, Texas-based company that collectively documents, analyzes and tracks trends in language usage worldwide, with a particular emphasis upon the English language.

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