The Words of the Year via NY Times

The Words of the Year

The Justin Bieber, Shellacking, Vuvuzela: Three new additions to the lexicon.

By SAM SIFTON and GRANT BARRETT

Published: December 18, 2010

There are buzzwords and there are great words. (Retweet.)

Vuvuzela is a great word, one of the best to enter American popular culture in 2010, though it sounds nothing like an actual vuvuzela. A vuvuzela sounds like a long, droning moan, a sound full of garbage and tennis balls.

The vuvuzela’s long, plastic barrel provided Americans with the junk shot of sounds this year, the sort of noise you could hear even through a … Lire la suite