President Bush speaks during a news conference in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington December 20, 2006.
"Stay the course," the phrase dropped by Bush administration as it searched for a new policy in Iraq, was declared the catch phrase of the year on last Thursday by language use group Global Language Monitor.
"It makes number one because it was declared inoperative," said Global Language monitor President Paul JJ Payack.
In second place was the ill-fated book title. "If I Did it" by O.J. Simpson. The idea of O.J. Simpson telling how he would have killed his ex-wife and her friend if he had actually murdered them outraged so many people that it was withdrawn. But the phrase was an immediate winner in the language.
Simpson was found not guilty of the murders in a criminal trial but held liable the deaths in a civil proceeding.
In third place was a series of emotion icons used in E-mail and text......
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