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Macmillan English Dictionary
Top 40 Most Popular New Words of 2005

01 McLibel 21 ICE number
02 Asbo 22 extended financial family
03 dental spa 23 pre-heritance
04    deshopper 24 ambush marketing
05 Chelsea tractor 25= podcasting
06 dooced 26 homeshoring
07 greenwash 27 Timbledon
08 warchalking 28 googolplex
09 Blackberry thumb 29 fanfic
10 She-pee 30 seachanger
11 nanopublishing 31 mystery worshipper
12 spim 32 dog whistle politics
13 wardrobe malfunction 33 healthspan
14 zombie 34 gripesite
15 half-birthday 35 infomania
16 stage-phoning 36 speed networking
17= supersize 37 cage diving
17= Whovian 38 7/7
19 gay bomb 39 awareness band
20 ubersexual 40 wiki

This chart is based on the number of page views of archived articles originally published in 2005.

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