以下是英国牛津词典评选的最有意识的百年年度新单词，你知道每个单词出现的历史背景吗？
　　Very few words are coined in isolation. Each neologism holds a clue, however faint, of the time in which it was created. The following choice of a single word from each of the last hundred years is inevitably subjective, since hundreds of new words are being created at any one time. Nonetheless, collectively these words give a distinct picture of the shifting preoccupations of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st. The dates of cheeseburger or mobile phone may surprise.

1904  hip
1905  whizzo
1906  teddy bear
1907  egghead
1908  realpolitik
1909  tiddly-om-pom-pom
1910  sacred cow
1911  gene
1912  blues
1913  celeb
1914  cheerio
1915  civvy street
1916  U-boat
1917  tailspin
1918  ceasefire
1919  ad-lib
1920  demob
1921  pop
1922  wizard
1923  hem-line
1924  lumpenproletariat
1925  avant garde
1926  kitsch
1927  sudden death
1928  Big Apple
1929  sex
1930  drive-in
1931  Mickey Mouse
1932  bagel
1933  dumb down
1934  pesticide
1935  racism
1936  spliff
1937  dunk
1938  cheeseburger
1939  Blitzkrieg
1940  Molotov cocktail
1941  snafu
1942  buzz
1943  pissed off
1944  DNA
1945  mobile phone
1946  megabucks
1947  Wonderbra
1948  cool
1949  Big Brother
1950  brainwashing
1951  fast food
1952  Generation X
1953  hippy
1954  non-U
1955  boogie
1956  sexy
1957  psychedelic
1958  beatnik
1959  cruise missile
1960  cyborg
1961  awesome
1962  bossa nova
1963  peacenik
1964  byte
1965  miniskirt
1966  acid
1967  love-in
1968  It-girl
1969  microchip
1970  hypermarket
 1971  green
1972  Watergate
1973  F-word
1974  punk
1975  detox
1976  Trekkie
1977  naff all
1978  trainers
1979  karaoke
1980  power dressing
1981  toy-boy
1982  hip-hop
1983  beatbox
1984  double-click
1985  OK yah
1986  mobile
1987  virtual reality
1988  gangsta
1989  latte
1990  applet
1991  hot-desking
1992  URL
1993  have it large
1994  Botox
1995  kitten heels
1996  ghetto fabulous
1997  dot-commer
1998  text message
1999  google
2000  bling bling
2001  9/11
2002  axis of evil
2003  sex up
2004  chav