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The Global Language Monitor have a list of words/phrases that are the “most confusing yet frequently cited”. They are, from ten to one, data migration, viral marketing, best-of-breed, emoticon, WORM, robust, plasma (as in TV), megapixel, voice-over-IP/VoIP, HyperText Transfer Protocol/HTTP. Robust and best-of-breed are pretty much meaningless, and the rest aren’t confusing. Voice over IP is compared with voice over POTS or voice over radio. HTTP is referenced frequently because it forms the basis of every single web address, because if it wasn’t the basis of every single web address, it wouldn’t be a web address - it would be a gopher address or a newsgroup or some other protocol. Some of these you have to be as thick as two short planks not to understand. Rant mode off.
