26 words to describe 2012. Unless you live somewhere like Asia, in which case the list would be totally different. If you don’t recognise something look it up at Wordspy.com. BTW, I have a feeling that Bifurcation – meaning forking or splitting into two – could be the word for 2012.

Anxiety
Bifurcation
Contagion
Debt
Euro
Frugal
Greece
Hope
Inflation
Juvenoia
Kaput
Locavore
Marginal
Nostalgia
Ostalgia
Payoff
Quality
Regulation
Simplicity
Thrift
Unemployment
Volatile
Weisure
Xenophobia
Yearning
Zen mail