jdoyle Posted December 7, 2017 Posted December 7, 2017 Word of the Year will be announced on Friday 15th December. Apparently there will be a documentary on the 16th Dec about how it is arrived at. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year Any thoughts about what will make the list or be the top one?
fiza Posted December 7, 2017 Posted December 7, 2017 Milk, 2 sugars, thanks. NATO Standard as we used to say. 3
sister_annex Posted December 7, 2017 Posted December 7, 2017 my favourite word this year has been f**knugget... please let that be in there 2
jdoyle Posted December 7, 2017 Author Posted December 7, 2017 Kwaussie seems to have been chosen in Australia. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/04/whats-a-kwaussie-he-word-of-the-year-nobody-has-heard-of Dictionary.com has gone for complicit Dictionary.com names 'complicit' its word of the year for 2017 - CNN
hardtailstar Posted December 7, 2017 Posted December 7, 2017 If it was up to our school it would be 'Resilience' Im starting to get annoyed by it. 1
Andrew_C Posted December 7, 2017 Posted December 7, 2017 Can be used in the context of our Brexit negotiating team, or the P45. 1
JATSO Posted December 7, 2017 Posted December 7, 2017 Maybe one these? Donald Trump's 20 Most Frequently Used Words | YourDictionary Slideshow 1
unixman_again Posted December 14, 2017 Posted December 14, 2017 Penis cliffhanger is New Zealand quote of the year - BBC News
jdoyle Posted December 14, 2017 Author Posted December 14, 2017 Penis cliffhanger is New Zealand quote of the year - BBC News oh dear.....
jdoyle Posted December 15, 2017 Author Posted December 15, 2017 (edited) Well, Youthquake has been announced as Word of the Year by OED https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2017 'Youthquake' declared word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries - BBC News Didn't feel that one coming. Adding in the shortlist https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/shortlist-2017 Edited December 15, 2017 by jdoyle
jdoyle Posted December 15, 2017 Author Posted December 15, 2017 some background to the selection https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/12/14/youthquake-word-of-the-year-2017-commentary/ Word of the Year 2017 airs Saturday 16th December at 6pm on Channel 4 : Channel 4 to showcase Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year 2017 - Channel 4 - Info - Press Not sure yet if I'm going to watch it.
unixman_again Posted January 15, 2018 Posted January 15, 2018 Milkshake duck: The Australian word that went 'universal' - BBC News I'm an Aussie and I've never heard of the term, and I've just come back from a month at home and I never heard it once. 1
unixman_again Posted January 30, 2018 Posted January 30, 2018 Mansplaining, ransomware and snowflake added to Oxford English Dictionary | Metro News 1
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