TED: The Most Powerful Word in English

A couple of months ago, a TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design - the world's ultimate social media-fueled idea-sharing Web site) researcher posed an inquiry on TED's LinkedIn page. They wanted to know people's thoughts on the single most powerful word in the English language.

Some 144 comments later, the word "yes" is thus far the runaway favorite. "Love" and "hope" are trailing in second and third place, respectively.

Other entries include (in no particular order): think, now, happy, welcome, next, no, happy, please, peace, God, passion, why, thanks, forgiveness, humility,believe, smile, faith, imagine.

The dialogue is still going on, for those who would care to weigh in the LinkedIn page.

Given the perceived audience of TED, I would have thought that either "why" or "love" would have topped out higher. So much for politically correct thinking!

For what it's worth, I submitted "go."