‘Shitstorm’ voted as German’s best English loanword. What were the runner-ups?
The amorphous black blob, a group of performers huddled underneath stretched black material, makes its way among the Occupy Wall Street West protests in the financial district January 20, 2012 in San Franscico, California. “Occupy” was another contender for German’s best English loanword.
The jury made up of linguists and language experts have voted in 2011's best English loanwords. No. 1 was "shitstorm" – which has been widely used in reference to the euro debt crisis engulfing Greece, and the massive plagiarism scandal surrounding former Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, which forced him to step down.
Here are some of the runner-ups.
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