Words of the Year (2002)

"The grim forebodings of the past year were reflected in the American Dialect Society's choice of weapons of mass destruction and its abbreviation WMD as word (or phrase) of the year 2002....

Other candidates for Word of the Year were:

google (verb)—to search the Web using the search engine Google for information on a person or thing: 11 votes.

blog-from weblog, a website of personal events, comments, and links: 6 votes.

Before the voting on Word of the Year, words were also chosen in particular categories. These were the categories for 2002:

— Most likely to succeed: blog (30 votes)....

— Most useful: google (verb). All 60 votes in this category were for this word." [MetaFilter]