Bravitude climbing fast on Google
{{date|January 16, 2007}}

[[Image:Ségolène Royal speaking crop.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[w:Ségolène Royal|Ségolène Royal]] on a meeting in [[w:Nantes|Nantes]] in November 2006.]]

You won't find the word "Bravitude" in any French dictionary yet. Bravitude is a neologism used by [[w:Ségolène Royal|Ségolène Royal]], the French socialist presidential candidate. She said it during a visit to the Great Wall of China, and the term caused a media buzz in [[France]]. It also provoked  ironic reactions from [[w:Nicolas Sarkozy|Nicolas Sarkozy]], who has been nominated Sunday by [[w:Jacques Chirac|President Chirac's]] party [[w:UMP|UMP]] as their candidate for the presidency. According to Royal's entourage, it was meant to express something more than just simple bravery (in French: ''bravoure''), a kind of ''fullness of bravery''.

Some [[w:neologism|neologisms]] need months, often years, to reach an acceptable level of recognition to get included in a conventional dictionary. This is often based on the usage in newspapers ''etc''. Bravitude on Google had only, the day before its first occurrence on French TV, a mere 110 hits.

Bravitude was already used since 2005 on some blogs and by fans of a relatively unknown role-playing game. On Tuesday last week, "bravitude" could be found in 200,000 different pages and in less than one week, had reached the one million mark. This neologism is this Tuesday in a slow decline, around 900,000 hits on Google, probably due to those web sites who hide their oldest pages when Google robots scan them.

== Related news ==
*{{wikinews|title=Bravitude and Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation on the main French TV network|date=January 17, 2006}}
*{{wikinews|title=The Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary adds 'google' as a verb|date=July 8, 2006}}

== Sources ==
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*{{source|url=http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/g/bravitude.htm
|title=Bravitude - Mot du Jour - Learn a French word a day
|author=Laura K. Lawless
|pub=french.about.com
|date=Retrieved January 16, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=Bravitude
|title=Bravitude
|author=
|pub=Wikinfo
|date=Retrieved January 16, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.upjf.org/actualitees-upjf/article-12252-145-7-bravitude-segolene-royal-menahem-macina.html
|title=La 'bravitude' de Ségolène Royal
|author=Menahem Macina
|pub=L'Union des Patrons et Professionnels Juifs de France
|date=January 7, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/01/08/international/i120039S34.DTL|title=French candidate bashed for bravitude
|author=Elaine Ganley
|pub=San Francisco Chronicle
|date=January 8 2007}}

== External links ==
* Video : [http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=%22bravitude+attitude%22 Ségolène Royal interviewed on the Chinese wall]

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[[fr:Ségolène Royal entame une visite de quatre jours en Chine]]
Ségolène Royal on a meeting in Nantes in November 2006.

You won't find the word "Bravitude" in any French dictionary yet. Bravitude is a neologism used by Ségolène Royal, the French socialist presidential candidate. She said it during a visit to the Great Wall of China, and the term caused a media buzz in France. It also provoked  ironic reactions from Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been nominated Sunday by President Chirac's party UMP as their candidate for the presidency. According to Royal's entourage, it was meant to express something more than just simple bravery (in French: bravoure), a kind of fullness of bravery.

Some neologisms need months, often years, to reach an acceptable level of recognition to get included in a conventional dictionary. This is often based on the usage in newspapers etc. Bravitude on Google had only, the day before its first occurrence on French TV, a mere 110 hits.

Bravitude was already used since 2005 on some blogs and by fans of a relatively unknown role-playing game. On Tuesday last week, "bravitude" could be found in 200,000 different pages and in less than one week, had reached the one million mark. This neologism is this Tuesday in a slow decline, around 900,000 hits on Google, probably due to those web sites who hide their oldest pages when Google robots scan them.
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