Friday, June 01, 2007

WORDS


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CLICHE CHALLENGE

Embedded soars into 5th place among single word cliches based on the
number of Google hits in the past three months.

Top newcomers: Benchmarks and amazing

TOP TWENTY PHRASE CLICHES

Real time - 387 million
Prior to - 286 million
In terms of - 267 million
Next generation - 150 million
Best practices - 133 million
In accordance with - 132 million
State of the art 92 million
Support services - 56 million
Cutting edge - 52 million
Sustainable development 50 million
World class - 49 million
Bottom line - 48 million
Mission statement - 40 million
All new - 34 million
Teamwork, team building, or team player 34 million
Period of time - 29 million
On the ground - 28 million
Strategic planning [plan] 28 million
Point in time - 30 million

TOP TWENTY SINGLE WORD CLICHES

Blog - 1.4 billion
Google - 954 million
Meme - 391 million
Context - 277 million
Embed, Embedded - 234 million
Concerns - 221 million
Empire, imperialism, or imperial - 213 million
Amazing 196 million
Marketplace - 193 million
Fuck, fucked, fucking - 179 million
Inappropriate - 174 million
9/11 - 169 million
Awesome - 132 million
Collaborative 127 million
Transformation 121 million
Sustainable - 114 million
Functionality - 106 million
24/7 - 103 million
Benchmark(s) 92 million
Shit - 82 million
Robust - 79 million
Empower(ing) - 62 million
Check it out - 60 million
Entrepreneur - 59 million

CLICHE CHALLENGE
http://prorev.com/cliche.htm

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