Come June 10 and English is likely to get its one millionth word. The front runner is Hinglish term jai ho, with the two other Indian entries of slumdog and cuddies.

Jai ho and ‘Slumdog’ have not only ruled the Oscars but have also emerged as the top ‘HollyWords’ that influenced the English language most in 2008.‘Jai ho’ Oscar winning original score composed by A R Rahman from Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire and the word ‘Slumdog’, from the same film, that was used to describe young slum-dwellers in Mumbai were named the top two Hollywood words of 2008 by the Global Language Monitor (GLM) in its 6th Annual Survey..