콜린스 올해의 단어 목록 알아보기 Collins - Word of the year

옥탑방 문제아들을 보다가 콜린스 올해의 단어에 대한 퀴즈가 나왔다. 2018년은 일회용 (Single-use)가 선정이 되었다고 한다. 전 세계적으로 플라스틱 등의 일회용품들이 환경을 파괴하고 있고, 특히 쓰레기로 가득찬 바다를 수영하는 사람의 동영상은 특히 일회용품을 사용하는 것에 대한 혐오를 일으키기 좋았던 것 같다. 

콜린스 올해의 단어 (1990 - 2018)

• 1990: bushlips (similar to "bullshit" – stemming from President George H. W. Bush's 1988 "Read my lips: no new taxes" broken promise) 부쉬립스로 불쉿가 비슷한 의미로 사용되었음. 부시 대통령이 약속을 어긴 것을 비하하여 만들어진 단어.
• 1991: mother of all (as in Saddam Hussein's foretold "Mother of all battles") 
• 1992: Not! (meaning "just kidding")
• 1993: information superhighway
• 1994: cyber, morph (to change form)
• 1995: web and (to) newt (to act aggressively as a newcomer, like Speaker Newt Gingrich during the Contract with America)
• 1996: mom (as in "soccer mom")
• 1997: millennium bug
• 1998: e- (as in "e-mail" or "e-commerce")
• 1999: Y2K 
• 2000: chad (from the 2000 presidential election controversy in Florida)
• 2001: 9-11 911테러
• 2002: weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
• 2003: metrosexual
• 2004: red state, blue state, purple state (from the United States presidential election, 2004)
• 2005: truthiness (popularized on The Colbert Report)
• 2006: plutoed (demoted or devalued, as happened to the former planet Pluto)
• 2007: subprime (an adjective used to describe a risky or less than ideal loan, mortgage, or investment)
• 2008: bailout (in the specific sense of the rescue by the government of companies on the brink of failure, including large players in the banking industry)
• 2009: tweet (a short, timely message sent via the Twitter.com service, and verb, the act of sending such a message) 트위터에서 트윗하던 것이 대유행
• 2010: app (an abbreviated form of application, a software program for a computer or phone operating system)
• 2011: occupy (verb or noun inspired from the Occupy movements of 2011)
• 2012: hashtag (a word or phrase preceded by a hash symbol (#), used on Twitter to mark a topic or make a commentary) 해시태그, #블라블라
• 2013: because introducing a noun, adjective, or other part of speech (e.g., "because reasons," "because awesome").
• 2014: #blacklivesmatter: hashtag used as protest over blacks killed at the hands of police (esp. Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York).
• 2015: Singular they (as a gender-neutral pronoun, especially for non-binarygender identities)
• 2016: dumpster fire (an exceedingly disastrous or chaotic situation)
• 2017: fake news (disinformation or falsehoods presented as real news or actual news that is claimed to be untrue)
• 2018: single-use