52 Words That Made 2011 is a compilation of 52 top trending news terms of the year as edited by Utterment.com co-founder Jerome W. Haines. Included are hundreds of links to the news stories that drove these words’ primacy across the web during 2011. The words in this book were first identified, ranked and tracked by the Utterment.com engine as they appeared in the news throughout the year. These 52 words ranked as the most salient lemmas (root words and proper names) among the millions that were tracked. Utterment is a tool whose primary purpose is not to write history books, but rather to assist human beings filtering, discovering, reading, and comprehending what’s going on. 52 Words is a remarkable look back at a year full of earth shaking political, environmental and social upheavals as tracked throughout 2011 by Utterment.com