Posts Tagged: WOTY

  • The Word of the Week website Word of the Year 2025 VEX

    WOTW’s Word of the Year 2025

    Over 2025 I looked at many words as our word of the week. Some words I chose because they were being used front and centre in current affairs, others indirectly reflected what was happening in the world and others were just chosen on whim. These are my choice of the words of the year 2025 […]

  • Cartoon image of a person drowning in AI slop (the Word of the Year 2025)

    Word of the Year 2025

    Every year the world’s major English dictionaries publish their word of the year for 2025 (WOTY25). It can be an interesting window into the political, social and cultural drivers of our world. Dictionaries from the “Anglosphere” give us insights into how our changing vocabulary reflects our changing lives. So unsurprisingly the collection of WOTYs from […]

  • Caption: KAKISTOCRACY "government by the least qualified or most unscrupulous citizens" AI generated image

    What is the word of the year 2024 — WOTY24?

    I love this time of the year for so many reasons but the most exciting is the release of the world’s major dictionaries’ words of the year (WOTY24). I keep my radar out all year for words that might be reflect the times and I look to the dictionary houses to do the deep research. […]

  • Cartoon image of a woman at a laptop with caption: Enshittification The gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking

    Enshittification—a modern decline

    This week the Macquarie Dictionary (MD) has chosen its word of the year (WOTY) for 2024 as “enshittification” (28 November 2024). In this they are behind the American Dialect Society that chose it as its WOTY 2023. I have been meaning to blog about it for a few months now, after my IT guy nudged […]

  • AI generated image of Donald Trump. He is being sanewashed by the US media.

    The sanewashing of Donald Trump

    We are less than a week out (1 Nov 2024) from the US election. Media outlets are saying that the polls are so close but many are calling Donald Trump as the winner. But how can a man who has spouted such nonsense as the following and been clearly identified as weird still be in […]

  • Editorial cartoon illustrating the 2023 Word of the Year, femwashing, with a staged corporate feminism campaign surrounded by smaller illustrations of the shortlisted words, including greenwashing, artificial intelligence, bowdlerisation and petfluencer.

    Our word of the year 2023 – FEMWASHING

    What is a word of the year? Over the last few weeks the world’s dictionaries have announced their words of the year (WOTY). The results have not been that exciting. Most have honed in on the big advances in artificial intelligence and its associated vocabulary. The Macquarie chose cozzie liv, leaving everybody a bit cold; […]

  • Tim Entwisle — I have no rizz whatsoever

    Putting on the “rizz”

    The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) word of the year (WOTY) for 2023 is “rizz”. It has been selected from a pool of candidates gathered by Oxford’s language research program. The competition for WOTY is designed to spotlight recently coined words or expressions, that capture the essence of the previous year and possess the potential for […]

  • Vaccination expressions for VAX as the word of the year 2021

    Vax—Word of the Year 2021—Oxford Languages

    OR … IF YOU TURN INTO A CROCODILE THATS YOUR PROBLEM The Oxford Languages (Oxford University Press) word of the year for 2021 is vax. Vax is a colloquial shortening of either vaccine or vaccination as a noun and vaccinate as a verb. It has been used in the vaxed, double-vaxed, unvaxed, and the scourge […]

  • the second most important event of 2020 was the US election played out in against the back-drop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

    WORD OF THE YEAR 2020—POLITICS AND THE US ELECTION

    Perhaps the second most important event of 2020 was the US election played out against the back-drop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. Here we look at words from politics and the US election for 2020  (I have borrowed a photo from the Trump Tie Meme). The OED reported that in the early […]

  • Single use from Collins https://www.collinsdictionary.com/woty

    WOTY18—the words of the year 2018

    Many of the English-speaking world’s leading dictionaries have published their Word of the Year for 2018 (WOTY18). The words are not always new, but they have been prominently used in the past year. The WOTY can be a word or a “vocabulary item” (acronyms, phrases, etc). Some organisations have committees to decide their WOTY; others […]