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advice, having held the top spot for all but two months of the year, is not surprisingly the most frequently viewed entry on Cambridge Dictionaries Online in 2004. Perhaps more suprising is the fact that the only change in the top 6 is the fall of idiom from 4th place in 2003 to 17. The lack of movement in recent monthly top 20s is possibly a result of the sheer number of searches being carried out - over 75 million in 2004, by far our most successful year ever. Keep clicking back to Cambridge Dictionaries Online in 2005, when we hope to introduce plenty of exciting new features.
While major world events are frequently reflected in the monthly top 20 charts, their impact is usually too short-lived to affect the annual top 50. However, it is interesting to note that the highest new entry to the chart is inquiry, in a year in which UK politics has been dominated by two major inquiries, Hutton and Butler.
advice is our most-viewed word of 2003, after topping the Top 20 charts for most the year. Perhaps the biggest surprise is that last year's no. 1, serendipity, with no film to promote it, drops out of 2003's top 50 entirely.
Also surprisingly, the biggest news story of the year, the war in Iraq, seems to have had little influence on the year's searches, with defy the only new entry that could speculatively be linked to it. Indeed, in these troubled times, it is heartening to see that empathy is the highest climber, up 27 places to 19.
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