MORE WORDS OF THE YEAR 2005. The New York Times (December 25, 2005) highlighted "some of the more interesting words and expressions to crop up in 2005."

cut & run
Scalito
frothy [in economics]
intelligent design
truthiness
daughter track
usufruct
persistent vegetative state

In the same issue, Grant Barrett offered a list of "important" American language from 2005. Word-watchers should take note of Grant's choices, as he's an influential member of the American Dialect Society, which will be announcing its Words of the Year at an unruly meeting in Albuquerque on January 6.

blame game
counter-recruiter
facebook
Floodweiser
futility music
fobbit
fsmism
lifehack
machinima
oil spot strategy
Paris Hilton tax cut
rootkit
Sudoku
trucker bomb

Out of the candidates covered in this blog so far, I'd say that IED, lifehack, Sudoku, podcasting and blame game seem to be the most noteworthy with Floodweiser (used to describe free water distributed to Katrina victims by Anheuser-Busch) being a terrific coinage. In that vein, I also like Pastafarian, mentioned by Grant as an alternative to fsmism. I'm a little sad about daughter track because it favors the women who step back from their careers to support parents. I can accept the indications that more women than men choose such a path, but it's regrettable that men who do the same thing seem to be negated in the language.

Here's previous coverage of the competition.