#wordoftheyear — Public Fediverse posts
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For the 50th year in a row, a group of linguists chose 10 English words that need to be banned
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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"?
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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?// Article en anglais //
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“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// Article en anglais //
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"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. -
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."
#Words #Language #Linguistics #Dictionary #WordOfTheYear #MerriamWebster
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Here's my own #wordoftheyear for 2025: #automation.
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“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// Article en anglais //
Traduction du mot ‘slop’: https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=Slop&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs
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"All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again."
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A chant known as ‘6-7’ has become one of 2025’s most disruptive internet trends, spreading from TikTok to classrooms and prompting bans by some schools. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/lifestyle/what-does-6-7-mean-viral-chant-explained-cdoc8hfu?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #InternetTrend #Memes #67Trend #WordOfTheYear
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A chant known as ‘6-7’ has become one of 2025’s most disruptive internet trends, spreading from TikTok to classrooms and prompting bans by some schools. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/lifestyle/what-does-6-7-mean-viral-chant-explained-cdoc8hfu?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #InternetTrend #Memes #67Trend #WordOfTheYear
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A chant known as ‘6-7’ has become one of 2025’s most disruptive internet trends, spreading from TikTok to classrooms and prompting bans by some schools. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/lifestyle/what-does-6-7-mean-viral-chant-explained-cdoc8hfu?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #InternetTrend #Memes #67Trend #WordOfTheYear
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A chant known as ‘6-7’ has become one of 2025’s most disruptive internet trends, spreading from TikTok to classrooms and prompting bans by some schools. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/lifestyle/what-does-6-7-mean-viral-chant-explained-cdoc8hfu?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #InternetTrend #Memes #67Trend #WordOfTheYear
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A chant known as ‘6-7’ has become one of 2025’s most disruptive internet trends, spreading from TikTok to classrooms and prompting bans by some schools. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/lifestyle/what-does-6-7-mean-viral-chant-explained-cdoc8hfu?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #InternetTrend #Memes #67Trend #WordOfTheYear
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#Economist #WordOfTheYear
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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
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“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// Article en anglais //
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‘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.
#RageBait #English #Languages #OxfordDictionary #Dictionary #SocialMedia #WordOfTheYear
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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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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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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"
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Check out the latest Marketing Junto Newsletter! 🎉
Discover why "Vibe Coding" is now one of the Words of the Year.
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Check out the latest Marketing Junto Newsletter! 🎉
Discover why "Vibe Coding" is now one of the Words of the Year.
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Check out the latest Marketing Junto Newsletter! 🎉
Discover why "Vibe Coding" is now one of the Words of the Year.
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Check out the latest Marketing Junto Newsletter! 🎉
Discover why "Vibe Coding" is now one of the Words of the Year.
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Check out the latest Marketing Junto Newsletter! 🎉
Discover why "Vibe Coding" is now one of the Words of the Year.
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#CambridgeDictionary #WordOfTheYear #ParaSocial #SocialMedia #Celebrities #Facebook #X #Instagram #TikTok #Celebs #Media #Relationships
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“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#CambridgeDictionary #DictionnaireCambridge #WordOfTheYear #MotDeLAnnée #Parasocial
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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/ -
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/
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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)
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“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// Article en anglais //
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Good to know I'm not the only person who doesn't know what it means.
https://apnews.com/article/6-7-word-of-year-dictionarycom-f905630f251cc8969100853d7e64ca79
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Et si vous vous demandez pourquoi: https://corp.oup.com/news/brain-rot-named-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024/
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Words of the Year 2024
Dictionary.com names ‘demure’ as its word of the year for 2024 [1]. Demure means characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
Oxford University Press names "brain rot" as the word of the year for 2024 {2]. As per Wikipedia [3],
>"In Internet culture, brain rot (or brainrot) refers to any Internet content deemed to be of low quality or value, or the supposed negative psychological and cognitive effects caused by it. The term also refers to excessive use of digital media, especially short-form entertainment, which may affect cognitive health."Amongst the six short listed candidates by Oxford University Press [4], I also liked the word "slop" which means art, writing, or other content generated using artificial intelligence, shared and distributed online in an indiscriminate or intrusive way, and characterized as being of low quality, inauthentic, or inaccurate.
From my perspective both brain rot and slop are more relevant.
1. https://time.com/7178900/demure-word-of-the-year-2024/
2. https://time.com/7199246/brain-rot-oxford-university-press-word-of-the-year-2024/
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_rot
4. https://corp.oup.com/word-of-the-year/#shortlist-2024 -
”But brain rot is not just a linguistic quirk. Over the past decade, scientific studies have shown that consuming excessive amounts of junk content — including sensationalist news, conspiracy theories and vacuous entertainment — can profoundly affect our brains. In other words, “rot” may not be that big of an exaggeration when it comes to describing the impact of low-quality online content.“
The effects of ‘brain rot’: How junk content is damaging our minds
#BrainRot #SocialMedia #MoralPanic #ProductivityPorn #WordOfTheYear
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”But brain rot is not just a linguistic quirk. Over the past decade, scientific studies have shown that consuming excessive amounts of junk content — including sensationalist news, conspiracy theories and vacuous entertainment — can profoundly affect our brains. In other words, “rot” may not be that big of an exaggeration when it comes to describing the impact of low-quality online content.“
The effects of ‘brain rot’: How junk content is damaging our minds
#BrainRot #SocialMedia #MoralPanic #ProductivityPorn #WordOfTheYear
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> The American Dialect Society also selected enshittification as their Word of the Year in 2023 and credited a blog post by Canadian author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow. In his 2023 blog “Tiktok’s enshittification“ Doctorow defined the term: ...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/20/polarizing-brain-rot-enshittification/
#Poopify #Enshittificiation #CoreyDoctorow #WordsOfTheYear #WordOfTheYear
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Brain Rot शब्द बना 'वर्ड ऑफ द ईयर', जानें क्या है इसका मतलब??
#BrainRot #Mobile #OxfordWordOfTheYear #WordOfTheYear #SocialMedia #EmotionalIntelligence #Brain #SocialMediaImpact #dwsamachar
https://dwsamachar.com/2024/12/05/brain-rot-named-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024-what-does-it-mean/
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‘Brain rot’ named Oxford Word of the Year 2024
In 2024, ‘brain rot’ is used to describe both the cause and effect of this, referring to low-quality, low-value content found on social media and the internet, as well as the subsequent negative impact that consuming this type of content is perceived to have on an individual or society.
https://corp.oup.com/news/brain-rot-named-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024/
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Australian dictionary picks #enshittification as 2024’s word of the year🏆
"coined by writer @pluralistic C #Doctorow, refers to a process in which apps or #digital #platforms start off as incredibly useful, but gradually worsen as they seek to make a #profit. #Socialmedia platforms like X & ride-sharing app Uber are frequently cited examples.. It was chosen as #wordoftheyear by the dictionary’s committee of experts, & was also voted “People’s Choice Winner”"
#mastowriter
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-dictionary-picks-enshittification-as-2024s-word-of-the-year -
I both love and hate this quote. I love that it so beautifully describes the current situation, but hate that we are where we are.
"We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit,” author Cory Doctorow said earlier this year.
‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
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@grammargirl Now, I think a likely candidate for a phrase of the year will be:
“Ignore all previous instructions”
#WOTY #WOTY2024 #WordOfTheYear #WordOfTheYear2024 #IgnoreAllPreviousInstructions
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The #Faroese #WordOfTheYear 2023 is #vitlíki - artificial intelligence. It comes from words #vit (intelligence, brains) and #líki (equal, like).
Listeners of the ‘Góðan morgun #Føroyar morning radio programme have been sending in their nominations for their favourite new Faroese word. The judging panel, representing Faroese language and media institutions, settled on ‘#vitlíki’ as their word of the year 2023.
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The #Faroese #WordOfTheYear 2023 is #vitlíki - artificial intelligence. It comes from words #vit (intelligence, brains) and #líki (equal, like).
Listeners of the ‘Góðan morgun #Føroyar morning radio programme have been sending in their nominations for their favourite new Faroese word. The judging panel, representing Faroese language and media institutions, settled on ‘#vitlíki’ as their word of the year 2023.
