<p>According to the Global Language Monitor (GLM), a group that studies word usage, "Vuvuzela has already appeared some 2,450 times in a recent search of the New York Times archive."<br /><br />"Vuvuzela appears certain to achieve a place (or at least some notoriety) within the ranks of the English language," said GLM's chief word analyst Paul J J Payack.<br /><br />"That is quick a few citations for the first draft of history; even a quick Google search yields over 6,000,000 hits on the term," Payack said.<br /><br />According to the BBC, vuvuzelas are seemingly ubiquitous brightly coloured plastic horns, said to have the potential to inflict lasting hearing loss because of the loudness and pitch.<br /><br />The thresholds to cross into the English lexicon include 25,000 citations meeting criteria for breadth of geographic dispersion along with a depth of media formats including the Internet, blogosphere and social media along with various formats of print and electronic media.<br /><br />Since 2003, the Global Language Monitor has been recognising new words or neologisms once they meet these criteria.<br /><br />The GLM says the word vuvuzela, is of uncertain origin.<br />"Some think it is related to the summoning horn, the kudu, for African villages. Others speculate it to be derived from an onomatopoeic Zulu word for the sound 'vu-vu', or a word for noise making, while many believe it to be 'township slang' for shower (of noise)," it said.</p>
<p>According to the Global Language Monitor (GLM), a group that studies word usage, "Vuvuzela has already appeared some 2,450 times in a recent search of the New York Times archive."<br /><br />"Vuvuzela appears certain to achieve a place (or at least some notoriety) within the ranks of the English language," said GLM's chief word analyst Paul J J Payack.<br /><br />"That is quick a few citations for the first draft of history; even a quick Google search yields over 6,000,000 hits on the term," Payack said.<br /><br />According to the BBC, vuvuzelas are seemingly ubiquitous brightly coloured plastic horns, said to have the potential to inflict lasting hearing loss because of the loudness and pitch.<br /><br />The thresholds to cross into the English lexicon include 25,000 citations meeting criteria for breadth of geographic dispersion along with a depth of media formats including the Internet, blogosphere and social media along with various formats of print and electronic media.<br /><br />Since 2003, the Global Language Monitor has been recognising new words or neologisms once they meet these criteria.<br /><br />The GLM says the word vuvuzela, is of uncertain origin.<br />"Some think it is related to the summoning horn, the kudu, for African villages. Others speculate it to be derived from an onomatopoeic Zulu word for the sound 'vu-vu', or a word for noise making, while many believe it to be 'township slang' for shower (of noise)," it said.</p>