Top words of 2010.

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You may not have used the word "Spillcam" in too many conversations lately, but according to the Global Language Monitor, it was the most used word in 2010 among the world's 1.6 billion English speakers. ("Spillcam" is the BP camera that documented last spring's Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.) GLM, which is based in Austin, Texas, scours millions of Web pages, newspapers, and social media sites to find the words that appear most often in various categories, from politics to science. GLM's president says that to make the list, words must be used outside of London and New York. "if people aren't using it in Beijing," he says, "it...