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A mysterious organization known only as the Global Language Monitor has released its annual list of the year's most influential "Hollywood words and phrases." Using advanced and sophisticated tracking techniques available to anyone with access to Google, the group has decreed "Brokeback" that highly evocative cluster of geographical peaks and valleys on the map of the human heart that has quickly turned into yet another synonym for "faggy" as Hollywood's word of the year:

The nonprofit group Global Language Monitor placed "Brokeback" — as in the film title "Brokeback Mountain" — at the top of its list of Hollywood words and phrases that captured attention this year.


Paul JJ Payack, the head of Global Language Monitor, said the movie became a cultural phenomenon that generated a million jokes, according to Google. Overall, a Google search shows more than 38 million references to the film, although only about 10 million people saw the movie.

In second place was "Brangelina," the hybrid name given to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as Hollywood's hottest new couple. They beat out "TomKat," bestowed on Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and "Vincifer," a hardly used term referring to Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn.

Global Language Monitor's credentials seem on somewhat shaky ground with that reference to "Vincifer" we've heard Vaughniffer and the much rarer Vaughniston, but Vincifer? Never. We'll grant them "petronoia," the fear of oil industry collapse, which has been popping up here and there, and they claim was "inspired by Syriana." But by fourth place "tuxedo," a sad little reference to the penguin doc they appear to have all but given up. We're having trouble recalling all those scintillating cocktail party conversations peppered generously with "penguin this" and "tuxedo that." A better choice would have been "Narnia," which between the movie's success and the SNL video short it inspired, became a battle cry for lazy Sunday cupcake munching stoners the world over.