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"slop": 2025 ADS Word of the Year

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

#wordorigins #language #WOTY #wordoftheyear

Brush up on your knowledge of contemporary English with my retrospective of the Words of the Year (WOTY) 2025, selected by leading lexicographers:

https://grammaticus.blog/2026/01/06/english-words-of-the-year-2025/

#englishlanguage #englishvocabulary #englishteacher #woty #WOTY2025

2025 Wordorigins Words of the Year (WOTY)

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

#language #wordorigins #woty

My words of the year for 2025, a list that includes #NoKings, clanker, Labubu, and chaos. https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/words-of-the-year-2025-fritinancy #woty #woty2025

"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

Annuncio di effimera parola dell’anno di sito americano che verrà ripreso pedissequamente anche dai media italiani, come se tutto ciò che è rilevante nel mondo anglofono lo sia automaticamente anche in Italia per l’italiano?? #WOTY

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6jx43qwahet4rlwfke4sloqy/post/3m4egjg44dk2v

Pornhub’s WOTY

Readers of this blog are probably familiar with the various Word of the Year (WOTY) competitions run by dictionaries and linguistic organizations. But they may not know that the site Pornhub.com has its own WOTY project of sorts. Each year Pornhub publishes a statistical analysis of its users, and in addition to providing global demographic data about who uses the site and when, it publishes the top and trending search terms used on it.

The 2024 analysis can be found here. [Note that the analysis itself is not pornographic, but beware of clicking links within it as those may lead you to NSFW pages. Moreover, one may not want to visit this link on a work computer, as your IT department may notify your boss that you’ve visited Pornhub.]

Hentai, sexually explicit cartoons in the style of Japanese manga, was the site’s no.1 search term again this year, with MILF, an acronym for a mom I’d like to fuck, also holding position at no.2. Demonstrating Pornhub’s global reach is the no.3 term, Pinay, referring to a Filipina, climbing from no.5 last year. On Pornhubgay.com, the top three terms remained unchanged from last year: twink, a man of youthful and slim appearance, at no.1, anime at no.2, and Pinay’s masculine counterpart Pinoy at no.3.  

But the real interest is in what terms trended this past year, search terms that reflected other societal trends. The biggest trend clocked by Pornhub was demure, inspired by a 2 August TikTok viral video in which creator Jools Lebron described her hair and makeup as “very demure.” Lebron’s TikTok video was not overtly sexual, much less pornographic, but evidently it kicked off a trend in Pornhub searches, which included demure itself (+133%), mindful pleasure (+112%), and mindful JOI (+87%). JOI being an initialism for jerk-off instructions, a video in which a performer addresses the viewer, giving instructions on how to pleasure themselves and describing, and sometimes performing, various sexual acts themselves.

The tradwife phenomenon and the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives TV show also spawned a Pornhub trend: Mormon threesome (+122%), Mormon sex (+92%), tradwife (+72%), and Mormon wife (+71%). All this while Pornhub is largely blocked in Utah.

People were evidently lusting after Olympic athletes, too. In the third quarter of the year, corresponding to the Paris Olympics, the trending terms included: vollyball [sic] (+165%), swimmer (+101%), and the generic athlete (+88%).

In an American Dialect Society/Pornhub WOTY crossover, the phrase hawk tuah, coined in a viral YouTube video in which a woman used it describe spitting on a penis during oral sex, was one of the nominees for the ADS WOTY in the Most Fun While It Lasted category. On Pornhub, hawk tuah got over ten million searches, and spit on dick rose +233%.

One of the more fun analyses that Pornhub does is a map that shows for each US state the search term that is most popular relative to the other states. So, furry is relatively popular in Oregon, pee takes the honors for Wisconsin, friends mom in California, footjob in Colorado, anal dildo in Alaska, and facesitting in Massachusetts.

Pornhub has a global reach, and it also publishes the most popular search terms for the top twenty countries. In the United States, hentai was the most popular term, climbing from no.3 last year, Latina took second, climbing from no.4, and MILF slipped one spot from no.2 to no.3. In France, the top three search terms remained unchanged. Unsurprisingly, francaise was no.1, but foreign terms challenged the country’s linguistic nationalism, with hentai and MILF coming in second and third, respectively. In the Philippines, Pinay and Pinoy unsurprisingly took the top two spots, with Japanese coming in third, all unchanged from last year. In Mexico, it was hentai and lesbianas, unchanged in the top two spots, with culonas (big ass) displacing MILF at no.3. And in the United Kingdom, MILF and lesbian continued to hold the top two spots, but British moved up two places, displacing Indian. British has been moving up the search rankings in recent years, perhaps reflecting some kind of post-Brexit xenophobia.

But overall, when one looks at the top search terms in the twenty countries, one is struck by how similar the lists are. Evidently tastes in porn genres do not vary all that much around the world. What is interesting, however, is which non-anglophone countries tend to use English terms and which use their native tongues. English terms dominate in the Philippines, Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands. Egypt has a mix of English and Arabic search terms. While France, Japan, Ukraine, Brazil, and Spanish-speaking countries tend to search in their native languages.

All of this leads one to ask, is porn a universal language, a lingua franca that unites rather than divides? Probably not, but with everything else going on in the world, it may provide some kind of common ground.

#anime #furry #hentai #internet #language #milf #mindful #Mormon #multilingual #pinay #pinoy #popCulture #pornhub #pornography #relationships #sexualSlang #slang #tradwife #twink #WOTY

It’s something of a tradition on my Grammaticus blog to start the New Year with a lexicographical recap of the previous year. If you’ve missed it in the news, here’s an overview of the words that marked the year 2024, chosen by the leading dictionary publishers from the English-speaking world.

https://grammaticus.blog/2025/01/08/english-words-of-the-year-2024/

#WOTY #englishvocabulary #englishlanguage #words #learningenglish #englishteacher #dictionary

🌲Yule 🎄Winter Solstice ❄️☀️ Saturnalia 🎉

Both Yule and the Winter Solstice share the same day making it an extra magical year.
❄️⛄️☀️
Best wishes from my family to yours.
#WheeloftheYear #WOTY #Yule #WinterSolstice #paganism #pagan #Wicca #witchcraft

Put on your snoafers, pour yourself a social tonic, and settle in with my words of the year for 2024. Now with bonus Name of the Year! #woty #woty2024 https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/words-of-the-year-fritinancy-edition-f59

#Humor #Humour #Language
#WordOfTheYear #WOTY

@grammargirl Now, I think a likely candidate for a phrase of the year will be:

“Ignore all previous instructions”

#WOTY #WOTY2024 #WordOfTheYear #WordOfTheYear2024 #IgnoreAllPreviousInstructions

@stronglang @Fritinancy

assholocene:

'The earliest citation I’ve found is from a June 25, 2023, Urban Dictionary entry: “the current period of human history in which people in power tend to be assholes.”'

I found a 17th February 2014:

“Paleontologists of SFWA will one day refer to this as the Assholocene Era … ”

Quoting an unknown poster on a Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America newsgroup:
https://informationjustwantstobefree.tumblr.com/post/76737018648/sffnet-sfwa-discussion
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/assholocene
#assholocene #WOTY2023 #WOTY #swearing

Peter Sokolowski calls #WOTY words of the year sort of rings on a tree #ThatWordChat

There was a lot of swearing at the American Dialect Society's word of the year vote on Friday, thanks in large part to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic and "enshittification." My summary for the @stronglang blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/01/07/the-sweary-wotys/ #woty #woty2023

#WOTY2023 is #enshittification! Congrats @pluralistic

https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/

Edited to add: #woty = #WordOfTheYear

"Enshittification" has an extensive Wikipedia entry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification#:~:text=Enshittification%2C%20also%20known%20as%20platform,Quora%2C%20Reddit%2C%20and%20Twitter.

#woty2023 #woty

Friday evening, New York time, the American Dialect Society will choose its Words of the Year for 2023, as well as an overall Word of the Year. It looks based on this evening's nomination session that there will be a special ad-hoc "AI" category. "AI" itself was nominated for Euphemism of the Year. The final vote will take place at the society's annual meeting in New York City. #woty2023 #woty

It's time for the annual #WOTY post!

Click on the link below and learn about the words of the year 2023:
https://grammaticus.blog/2024/01/03/english-words-of-the-year-2023/

#EnglishVocabulary #EnglishLanguage #LearningEnglish #EnglishTeacher

@mtechman Thanks, @mtechman. I just hope I have the rizz to pull it off as host. #woty #didIdothatright

Join co-host Grant Barrett online for language and linguistics smack talk and back talk this Wednesday! He'll be appearing in support of Metafilter, an online community he's been a part of since 1999. Lots of great events on the sked, and more to come! https://www.eventbrite.com/x/metafilter-online-events-tickets-469997263467 #Linguistics #VideoChat #Metafilter #Language #Lexicon #NewWords #Neologisms #WOTY #WordOfTheYear #PublicRadio #Podcast #Podcasting #Etymology