“Climate strike” is chosen as 2019’s word of the year
Last year we wrote about the annual tradition that is Collins English Dictionary word of the year, as chosen by lexicographers since 2013. Following on from last year’s winner “single-use,”… Read more »
And the word of the year is…. single-use
Annually in the UK, the Collins English Dictionary, published by HarperCollins, pick their ‘word of the year’. They have been producing dictionaries since 1819 and currently maintain a database of… Read more »
“Post-truth” is the International Word of the Year
As we learned last week, the election has brought a number of new words into the public consciousness. We also learned that the results of the 2016 US Presidential Election seem to indicate that… Read more »
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is “ism”
Merriam-Webster has revealed its word of the year and, in what appears to be a fast-growing tradition, it is not technically a word. Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is a… Read more »
The 2015 Word of the Year is … not a word
In its perhaps most reflexive Word of the Year selection, Oxford Dictionaries has chosen the laugh/cry (or “Face with Tears of Joy”) emoji to represent 2015. It is, indeed, kind of… Read more »
Your bad habit is Collins Dictionary’s word of the year
Collins Dictionary has named “binge-watch” as 2015’s Word of the Year. The term, which the dictionary defines as, “To watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from… Read more »