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12-05-2007, 09:30 AM
9/11 tops Oxford University Press word survey
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Last Updated: 2:28am GMT 05/12/2007
The word that sums up the mood of the 21st century so far is 9/11, according to a survey.
Although written in numerals, the date of the terror attacks on the United States emerged as the winner in a poll of more than 1,000 people by Oxford University Press.
The word "footprint", which has come to follow "carbon" or "ecological", came a close second.
The term "sex up", which found fame thanks to the BBC report by journalist Andrew Gilligan about British intelligence documents, was voted into third place.
Juliet Evans, a spokesman for Oxford University Press, said: "9/11 has become the immediate reference point for the terrorist attacks against America in 2001.
"Their repercussions have resonated throughout the years since.
"Many might consider them the catalyst for a chain of political and social events which have dominated the decade."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/05/wsudan505.xml
Last Updated: 2:28am GMT 05/12/2007
The word that sums up the mood of the 21st century so far is 9/11, according to a survey.
Although written in numerals, the date of the terror attacks on the United States emerged as the winner in a poll of more than 1,000 people by Oxford University Press.
The word "footprint", which has come to follow "carbon" or "ecological", came a close second.
The term "sex up", which found fame thanks to the BBC report by journalist Andrew Gilligan about British intelligence documents, was voted into third place.
Juliet Evans, a spokesman for Oxford University Press, said: "9/11 has become the immediate reference point for the terrorist attacks against America in 2001.
"Their repercussions have resonated throughout the years since.
"Many might consider them the catalyst for a chain of political and social events which have dominated the decade."