Top 10 words of 2000

What people speaks reflect their lifestyle and culture mostly. Some terms in 2000 included .com and B2C became very important, which will generate online shopping in future.
With chad as king, here are the top, and maybe the most worn out, words of 2000.
• Millennium: No staying power; actually the Top Word of 1999
• Y2K: Ditto
• Sydney Olympics: The two names were interchangeable
• Dot-com: Momentum from 1999; ensuing economic crash only emphasized the word
• Elian: Remember the Cuban kid plucked from the sea whose custody case became a cause celebre?
• God : Frequently invoked through the presidential campaign season thanks to candidates Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush
• Pelletizing: At the crux of the Bridgestone/Firestone tire recall, the process of bonding the rubber with the steel belted radials
• Intifada: A shorthand reference to a conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians that escalated in late September
• Tiger: As in Tiger Woods, who set the golfing world afire with irons and drivers Biz buzz

What's business without buzzwords? For yourDictionary.com, the five stand-out acronyms and their translations:
• B2B: Business-to-business
• B2C: Business-to-consumer
• ASP: Application service provider
• SSP: Software service provider
• CRM: Customer relationship management

A language all their own
As the Internet gained a greater global presence in communications, users continued to popularize their own lingo.
The top Internet words of 2000:
• Eyeballs: A visitor to a Web site
• Stickiness: The amount of time a visitor stays on a Web site
• Click-through: Clicking on a banner ad on a Web site
• Click-and-mortar : What dot-coms are attempting to become; a hybrid between a dot-com and a 'brick-and-mortar' (viz. profitable) operation
• Lay-offs: What happens when you don't succeed in transforming your dot-com into a click-and-mortar operation
Cliches: They're like beating a dead horse
Cliches, the bane of many a linguist, also had their place in the year 2000. Here are some of the most prominent, according to yourDictionary.com.
• Time to fish or cut bait: Traced to the 1600s; still incomprehensible
• Think outside the box: Once a bold entreaty to be different, this clichŽ today surely shows how inside the box you really are
• Pushing the envelope: A corruption of the U.S. test pilots' term for stretching the aerodynamic "envelope" as they passed through Mach 1 and beyond
• Starting from ground zero: Ground zero is the epicenter of a thermonuclear blast; most would agree that "square one" is a much better place from which to start

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