Everyone's doing end of year lists at the moment, so here's a W2O list of words that will very soon seem soooooooo 2009.

Bosh

Word used to express satisfaction in accomplishment of a task. "I've only gone and cracked the whole mobile computing campaign for the next three years. Bosh!"

Boom

Like bosh, only more so. "The client thought my powerpoint was totally awesome. Boom!"

Donk

Sub-genre of house music, also known as 'scouse house', named for distinctive beat sound. Also applied to advertising. "Is there any way to rescue this hopeless concept?" "Put a donk on it."

Swede

Reference to utilisation of Scandinavian interactive gurus. "What's our strategy for earned media?" "Put a Swede on it."

Tweet

Small cry of despair from place of work. "Are you tweeting from the meeting?"

Mobflashing (sic)

All-purpose word used to describe real-world behaviour stimulated by mobile content. "If we tweet this, can we get people mob-flashing?"

Meerkat

Simples!

Barley

Derived from the Nathan Barley TV series. Adjective used to describe anything embarrassingly pretentious and wanky in the Shoreditch/Spitalfields area. "Fixed wheel bikes are a bit Barley." "Nic, those trousers make you look totally Barley."

Recession

Actually, this one may carry on in use into 2010.

Any more suggestions for 2009 words of the year?

Tomorrow night's Friday play at 9.00 pm on Radio 4 is a dramatisation of Joshua Ferris's excellent novel "Then we came to the end". Told in the first person plural, it's the story of the decline of an American ad agency that is going under in the downturn, losing clients and firing staff. The agency employees waste their time bitching and politicking as things get weirder and more desperate. The characters and situations are immediately recognisable and Ferris obviously wrote it from first-hand experience of the business.

Just the sort of topical feelgood story to enjoy at the end of a year most of us would agree has been hard work and not much fun. From what I remember of how the book ends up, it might be worth tuning if only to console yourself with the thought, 'At least things haven't got that desperate and crazy here…yet.'

If you missed it by the time you read this, or you can't pick up R4 where you are, you can listen online here.