Vote for the Word of the Year

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Help us choose the Word of the Year
Vlae Kershner, News Director, SF Gate Thursday, December 11, 2003 Here's your chance to nominate the Word of the Year.

Our first winner, chosen by readers' votes, was "9/11" in 2001. Last year, it was "nukular" a pronunciation favored by a certain world leader.
A finalist last year was "WMD", which the experts at the American Dialect Society subsequently selected as their 2002 word of the year.

So what's this year's word going to be?
Iraq certainly has dominated the news, and since "WMD" was already ubiquitous last year, maybe "absence" is the sequel for 2003. Or "statue". Or, if you're the British counterpart of the aforementioned leader, "poodle".
Californians might want to recall some major event. Or maybe not.

Then there are cultural terms like "metrosexual." Until a couple months ago, most people thought it sounded like somebody having a good time on the Paris subway.
To qualify, a word should be in widespread use. It doesn't have to be new, but it should have picked up a new meaning or achieved new prominence.
So come up with a nomination or two and e-mail 'em along. We'll pick five finalists, publish a sampling of reader comments and hold a vote in a poll next Thursday.