Global Language Monitor
{{short description|American media analytics company}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Global Language Monitor
| logo = 150px
| type = Media Analytics
| foundation = {{start date|1999||}}
| founder = Paul JJ Payack
| location_city = Headquarters: Austin, Texas
| location_country = United States
| industry = Analytics, Public Relations
| products =
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The Global Language Monitor (GLM) is a company based in Austin, Texas, that analyzes trends in the English language.
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History
Founded in Silicon Valley in 2003 by Paul J.J. Payack, the GLM describes its role as "a media analytics company that documents, analyzes and tracks cultural trends in language the world over, with a particular emphasis upon International and Global English". In April 2008, GLM moved its headquarters from San Diego to Austin.[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AASB&p_theme=aasb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_hidethis=no&s_dispstring=%22global%20language%20monitor%22&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(%22global%20language%20monitor%22)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no] / Finally, California sends a business we can support
In July 2020, GLM announced that the word covid was its Top Word of 2020 for English.{{Cite press release |last=Monitor |first=Global Language |title=Global Language Monitor Announces That 'Covid' is the Top Word of 2020 |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-language-monitor-announces-that-covid-is-the-top-word-of-2020-301088114.html |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=www.prnewswire.com |language=en}}
The company has been repeatedly criticized by linguists for promoting misinformation about language. Writing on Language Log, the linguist Ben Zimmer accused it of "hoodwink[ing] unsuspecting journalists on a range of pseudoscientific claims".{{Cite web|url=https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=816|title=There will be passives|date=2008-11-07|author=Ben Zimmer|author-link=Ben Zimmer|website=Language Log|access-date=2024-11-09}}{{Cite web|url=https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=972|title=The "million word" hoax rolls along|date=2009-01-03|author=Ben Zimmer|author-link=Ben Zimmer|website=Language Log|access-date=2024-11-09}}{{cite news |last=Grimond |first=John |date=2010-06-17 |title=Professorial? |url=https://www.economist.com/johnson/2010/06/17/professorial|work=The Economist |access-date=2024-11-09}}{{Cite web|url=https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1979|title=Like Oreos, but braver|date=2009-12-20|author=Mark Liberman|author-link=Mark Liberman|website=Language Log|access-date=2024-11-09}}
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