Says American Dialect Society, voting the word Subprime as its 2007 Word of the Year.

80 members spent 2 days debating this word over the stiff competition of:

* Facebook
* green
* Googleganger
* waterboarding

>As for “subprime,” Glowka [their spokesman] said it is an odd word — at least as far as linguists are concerned.

>The prefix “sub” translates roughly to “below the standard,” while “prime” means something close to “the best.”

>So, according to Glowka, the word really means “far below the best.”

>”People were saying that students were referring to their tests, ‘I’m going to subprime this; I’m going to mess it up,'” he said.

Last year the word of the year was pluto. Yeah, I’d say we are on a different planet this year.