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Schadenfreude. #WordOfTheYear #AI

"slop": 2025 ADS Word of the Year

https://www.wordorigins.org/harmless-drudge/ads-2025-word-of-the-year-woty

#wordorigins #language #WOTY #wordoftheyear

Officially, South Africa's Word of the Year for 2025 was "G20". GoodThingsGuy disagreed, though: https://www.goodthingsguy.com/opinion/real-word-of-the-year-that-defined-2025-in-south-africa/?utm_source=MastodonAfrica

What would you say the real Word of the Year was for 2025? Or do you agree with it being "G20"?

#SouthAfrica #WordOfTheYear

How did we get to this year’s words of the year?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/words-of-the-year-9.7021930
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Comment sommes-nous arrivés aux mots de l’année de cette année?

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#WordOfTheYear #MotDeLAnnée

“Maplewash” is the Canadian word of the year for 2025

https://www.thewhig.com/news/local-news/queens-university-helps-to-determine-canadas-first-official-word-of-the-year
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« Acériblanchiment » mot canadien de l’année 2025

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#Canada #WordOfTheYear #MotDeLAnnée

"Luddite" deserves to be a top word of the year, considering how much we've hollered about the trash that some call AI in 2025. People wrongly think that a Luddite hates technology. Many Luddites seem incredibly open to new ideas. What is your favorite advancement of the year?
https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318234/rootwave-eweeder/
I'm excited to learn more about EufyMake E1 UV printer, and now we have an e(electric)Weeder that costs less than herbicides.

#tech #technology #WordOfTheYear #WordOfTheYear2025 #WOTY

Merriam-Webster's human editors say that "slop" is their word of the year. Here are some others that stood out to them, from "gerrymander" to "Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg."

https://flip.it/Y6jtIL

#Words #Language #Linguistics #Dictionary #WordOfTheYear #MerriamWebster

Here's my own #wordoftheyear for 2025: #automation.

“Slop” named 2025 Word of the Year by Merriam-Webster dictionary

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/slop-word-of-the-year-9.7015916
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« Bouillie » déclarée Mot de l’année 2025 selon le dictionnaire Merriam-Webster

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Traduction du mot ‘slop’: https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=Slop&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs

#WordOfTheYear #MotDeLAnnée

"All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/merriam-webster-word-of-the-year-2025-rcna247864?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Via https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-ZLm0KjdvTRmKVI6U2lMGPQ%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0

#slop #WordOfTheYear #WordOfTheYear2025 #AI #news #language

#Economist #WordOfTheYear
... with an ironic twist

Oxford University Press gins up some “rage bait” with its word of the year choice.

Rage Bait Is a Brilliant Word of the Year - The Atlantic
#wordoftheyear
https://archive.ph/G3Dez

“Rage bait” word of the year according to Oxford University Press

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/word-of-the-year-rage-bait-9.6998489?cmp=rss
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« Rage bait » mot de l’année selon Oxford University Press

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#RageBait #WordOfTheYear #MotDeLAnnée

‘Rage bait’ is crowned Oxford’s Word of the Year for 2025.

“Rage bait” triumphed over “biohack” and “aura farming” to become Oxford’s Word of the Year 2025.

The two-syllable open-compound word refers to an attention-seeking form of online behaviour that leads nowhere good.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251201-rage-bait-is-crowned-oxfords-word-of-the-year-for-2025?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#RageBait #English #Languages #OxfordDictionary #Dictionary #SocialMedia #WordOfTheYear

So the Oxford University Press Word of the year is "rage bait" which narrowly fought off aura farming and biohack. Last year it was brainrot. Humanity's relationship with social media clearly isn't healthy. We need to show more discernment in our reading procurement. I would rather ask a librarian rather than Musk's or Zuckerberg's algorithms what to read next. An hour in your local library beats an hour scrolling. Your brain will thank you. #wordoftheyear #iamreading #OUP #readbetter https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewjxqvqzgyo

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"#Parasocial is Cambridge Dictionary #WordoftheYear"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgmv877746o

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Discover why "Vibe Coding" is now one of the Words of the Year.

https://gmwd.us/mj111925

#vibecoding #lovableAI #collinsdictionary #wordoftheyear

#CambridgeDictionary #WordOfTheYear #ParaSocial #SocialMedia #Celebrities #Facebook #X #Instagram #TikTok #Celebs #Media #Relationships
Some people seriously need to spend more time with their own friends in the real world and less time looking at celebs.

https://news.sky.com/story/parasocial-that-one-sided-feeling-you-really-know-a-celebrity-is-cambridge-dictionarys-word-of-the-year-13472086

#Cambridge #Dictionary names ' #parasocial’ 2025 #WordoftheYear

https://www.10tv.com/article/news/nation-world/cambridge-dictionary-parasocial-2025-word-of-the-year/507-af8d4721-03ae-495c-9a6b-e33a3d9c0059

“Parasocial” declared word of the year by Cambridge Dictionary

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/parasocial-word-of-the-year-9.6983335
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« Parasocial » déclare mot de l’année par le dictionnaire Cambridge

https://www.lefigaro.fr/langue-francaise/actu-des-mots/parasocial-elu-mot-de-l-annee-pour-le-dictionnaire-de-cambridge-20251118

#CambridgeDictionary #DictionnaireCambridge #WordOfTheYear #MotDeLAnnée #Parasocial

And all the Kpop stans rolled their eyes .. we're gonna need some new vocab. :blobcatgiggle:

Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2025
https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/11/18/cambridge-dictionary-word-of-the-year-2025/

#WordOfTheYear #KPop

BBC: ‘Vibe coding’ named word of the year by Collins Dictionary. “Collins Dictionary’s word of the year – which is confusingly made up of two words – is the art of making an app or website by describing it to artificial intelligence (AI) rather than by writing programming code manually.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/06/bbc-vibe-coding-named-word-of-the-year-by-collins-dictionary/

Oh for jayses sake:

"Vibe coding, an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins’ Word of the Year for 2025."

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/1106/1542331-collins-word-of-the-year-for-2025-revealed/

(cc @stancarey)

#WordOfTheYear #VibeCoding #Words #Language

“6-7” has been named word of the year, according to dictionary.com

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/dictionary-2025-word-of-the-year-67-9.6960495
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« 6-7 » a été déclaré mot de l’année selon dictionary.com

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#WordOfTheYear #MotDeLAnnée

But time will not permit: all is uneven,
And every thing is left at six and seven.
- Richard II (II, 2)
#WordOfTheYear #Shakespeare

Dictionary.com reveals '67' is its 2025 Word of the Year
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Living/dictionary-67-2025-word-year/story?id=126947602

Et si vous vous demandez pourquoi: https://corp.oup.com/news/brain-rot-named-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024/

#Oxford #WordOfTheYear #MotDeLAnnee #BrainRot

For weeks now, I've been trying to come up with a Word of the Year for 2025.

In 2023, I picked PIVOT. In 2024, LOVE. They were both very appropriate & I fell back on them often. This year, tho, the only words I can think of are SADNESS, DESPAIR, HOPELESS...& a little bit of OH, DEAR JESUS--NOOOOOO!!!!!! But those all feel a tad too...negative for a #WordOfTheYear, don't you think?

I could maybe go with HOPE, but since I'm not really feeling it, I'm not sure it will help.

Any suggestions?