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Words of the year, now with polarization.
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Words of the year Now with demure and kakistocracy .
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Words of the year Now with brain rot .
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Words of the year, now with enshittification.
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Words of the year, now with manifest.
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From the Collins Dictionary, brat : inspired by Charli XCX and “characterized by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude.”
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Another word of the year.
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Words of the year, now with a second “hallucinate” and a “vibe of the year.”
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Another word of the year.
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A word of the year from Merriam-Webster.
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More words of the year.
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From the Collins Dictionary, AI .
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“Woman”: another word of the year.
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From the Collins Dictionary, permacrisis, “a term that describes ‘an extended period of instability and insecurity.’”
The ODAAE
Underway, the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, Henry Louis Gates Jr., editor-in-chief.
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Words of the year, now with insurrection.
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Words of the year, now with one from The Economist.
Words of the year
“Vax” is first.
Nail-biter and others
Peter Sokolowski of Merriam-Webster looks at words of the 2020 election.
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“They,” another word of the year.
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“Voice,” another word of the year.
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Words of the year, now with “cancel culture .”
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Words of the year, now with “existential .”
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Another word of the year: “upcycling.”
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Words of the year: now with climate emergency.
Words of the year
From the Collins Dictionary, climate strike .
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Oxford Dictionaries announces its word of the year.
M-W sentence challenge
“In the name of federalism, show some empathy, or at least some syzygy, you complicit gaffe-prone dotard,” the hurricane warned, “before I turn you into a gyro platter and recuse myself!”
Words of the year
Several picks.
Saving Western civ
Charles McNamara, a lexicographer for the Latin dictionary Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, writing about what defunding the NEH will mean for his work.