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<<Google-Word-of-the-Decade Technically speaking the decade isn’t yet over. However, that hasn’t stopped the American Dialect Society from declaring that ‘google’ is the word of the decade. The American Dialect Society is a scholarly association dedicated to the study of English language in North America, which is apparently more than a century old.>>

They're a decade too late. For many readers of this blog, "Google" was word of the decade for the 1990s.