回顾--2002年流行英语词汇

美国网络词典门户网站发布了2002年流行英语词汇Top 10排行榜，包括：Top Ten Words, September 11, People's Names, California YouthSpeak, Top Phrases, Corporate Buzzwords, Sports, Best & Worse Corporate Name Changes, Internet-related, and more.
Top Ten Words of 2002

1. Misunderestimate What President Bush’s opponents have learned not to do, in his own word.

2. Survivor This time an uplifting story about Pennsylvania coal miners and not a ‘reality TV’ series. .

3. Listeria A new danger found lurking in our food, named for the same man (Joseph Lister) who invented the surgical antiseptic now used as a mouthwash, Listerine.

4. Perp-walk The parading of criminals in handcuffs before the cameras. It made the news only as some of the nation's most distinguished faces began appearing there.

5. Bandwidth What people are increasingly out of, a computer term now applied to modern life.

6. Sniper As around the Beltway. The US discovered that terrorists do not have a monopoly on terror.

7. To nasdaq As in, "His fortune was nasdaqued." The bubble of the mid-to-late ‘90s returns to reality and adds a worthy item to our vocabulary.

8. Warlords The freedom fighters of an earlier era today are now a threat to delicate Afghani democracy.

9. Issue A great new euphemism for problem, fault or any other type of misstep; we no longer repair the fault, we simply ‘resolve’ the issue.

10. Pedophilia Not the love of feet, though it has rocked the Catholic Church to its foundations.