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Collins, Oxford Kick Off Word of the Year Season 2018

posted on November 21, 2018 by Andy Hollandbeck

Carefully wrapped gifts on dark, rustic-looking wood, on which is painted a calligraphic "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year," followed by, in plain lettering, "Word of the Year Season"

Thanksgiving is great and all, but around here, November means one thing: Word of the Year Season. And while Americans were fussing and fretting over mid-term elections, across the Atlantic, Collins Dictionary and Oxford Dictionaries quietly got the season started. Collins Dictionary Word of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Language Usage, Vocabulary Tagged With: Dictionaries, word of the year, woty

Milkshake Duck: A Word and a Word of the Year

posted on January 17, 2018 by Andy Hollandbeck

A yellow rubber duckie floating in a milkshake.

Last weekend, the editors at the Australian Macquarie Dictionary announced their choice for 2017 Word of the Year. They chose milkshake duck, “a person who is initially viewed positively by the media but is then discovered to have something questionable about them which causes a sharp decline in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Language Usage Tagged With: Dictionaries, word of the year, woty

American Name Society Announces 2017 Names of the Year

posted on January 10, 2018 by Andy Hollandbeck

The American Name Society, a group founded in 1951 to promote the study of onomastics, gathered in Salt Lake City on January 5 to, among other things, vote for Names of the Year. Here are the results: Name of the Year: Rohingya The Rohingya are a Muslim faction predominantly in western Myanmar and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, News Tagged With: onomastics, word of the year, woty

Collins Dictionaries Top Ten Words of the Year

posted on November 30, 2016 by Andy Hollandbeck

Word-of-the-year season is upon us! Last week, Oxford Dictionaries' editors announced post-truth as their word of the year, but they weren't the first. The editors at Collins Dictionaries posted their top ten words of the year on Thursday, November 3. Collins being a British dictionary, its … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Vocabulary, word of the year

Oxford Dictionaries Chooses “Post-Truth” as Its Word of the Year

posted on November 18, 2016 by Erin Brenner

Word of the Year

On Thursday, Oxford Dictionaries announced post-truth is its Word of the Year (WOTY) for 2016. post-truth (adj.): relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. In a year of major political … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Tip of the Week Tagged With: Erin Brenner, Tip of the Week, Vocabulary, word of the year, woty

Follow #WOTY14 for Top Words, Hashtags of 2014

posted on January 9, 2015 by Mark Allen

Many different Words of the Year are selected by dictionaries and other organizations, but the culmination of this annual examination of language and culture is tonight: The American Dialect Society chooses the 2014 Word of the Year at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time in Portland. Theirs is the most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 2014, word, word of the year, woty

Grammatical Novelty is WOTY; Selfie and Twerk Draw Ire

posted on January 10, 2014 by Mark Allen

An exciting word-of-the-year season closed last week with the somewhat surprising selection of because as the American Dialect Society 2013 Word of the Year in a usage no doubt destined for banishment by the Lake Superior State University banished words list next year. You might think back to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: word of the year, woty

Nominees Set for WOTY Categories; Whither Twerk?

posted on January 3, 2014 by Mark Allen

The American Dialect Society may seem like an erudite group, largely made up as it is of people who actually chose to study linguistics. But the discussions during this evening’s Word of the Year voting should be anything but staid. The debate is open to anyone who can fit into the conference room … [Read more...]

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