Buzzwords and Catchphrases of 2009

The New York Times Week in Review offers its annual list of words and catch phrases of the last year. As I've mentioned before, words and phrases reveal much about our national concerns and interests. How many of these do you know?

• aporkalypse
• athey
• birther
• bonus tax
• car tone
• Cash for Clunkers
• Chimerica
• conflict minerals
• crash blossom
• death panel
• Dracula sneeze
• drive like a Cullen
• Government Motors
• El Stiffo
• gaymarry, gay-marry
• Great Recession
• green shoots
• heinie
• I’mma let you finish
• jeggings
• mancession
• meep
• mini-Madoff
• netbook
• Octomom
• orphan books
• public option
• sexting
• social distancing
• swine flu party
• Tea Party
• Tenther
• torture memos
• vook
• warmist
• wise Latina woman
• ununbium