The most used phrases over the last decade show the world is most often described from a gloomy lexicon of illness and disaster.

Climate change, terrorism, New York's 9/11 twin towers outrage and the global credit crunch - or financial tsunami - are the top four on the list, revealed yesterday.

The only "neutral" entry is King of Pop - meaning tragic singer Michael Jackson - but that is only thirteenth. Swine flu is sixth, behind Weapons of Mass Destruction, in the most repeated sayings on the internet and media.

But, proving America's domination of communications, the compilation by the Global Language Monitor of Texas has "Let's Roll" seventh.They were the last words of Todd Beamer, a passenger on one of the hijacked 9/11 jets, before he and others tried to storm the cockpit.

Next came Red State/Blue State - whether an area was Republican or Democrat in the presidential election.

More widespread was Carbon Footprint - about the environment - while the invasion of Iraq was represented by Shock and Awe. GLM founder Paul Payack said: "For a decade that began with such joy and hope, the doom and gloom words depict in many ways a tragic time."

TOP 10 PHRASES (2000-2009): 1 Climate Change; 2 Financial Tsunami; 3 Ground Zero; 4 War on Terror; 5 WMD; 6 Swine Flu; 7 Let's Roll; 8 Red State/Blue State; 9 Carbon Footprint; 10 Shock and Awe.

It truely is frightening to know that all of the most commonly used phrases of the past ten years, every single one of them, can be defined with one term; "LIES TOLD TO US BY OUR GOVERNMENT."

A proper list of most used words would include: the, a, an, I, you, etc...

It seems as if someone picked the words out of a history book on the past 10 years, and are you really suprised at the results? Sure they may be all doom and gloom, but they are relevant to what has occurred in the past decade according to the media.