Financial crisis might seems like an abstract international word for a lot of the Chinese migrant workers, but its distance to reality is not as far as they expected.

Also, "debt" and "euro debt crisis" were voted the international word and phrase of the year, showing the public's growing awareness of a globalized world, the report said.

There was also smog, or haze, or some version of atmospheric opaqueness for which the International Olympic Committee has yet to invent a word.