• The word(s) of the year, sometimes capitalized as "Word(s) of the Year" and abbreviated "WOTY" (or "WotY"), refers to any of various assessments as to...
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    December, a German word or word group is named in a linguistic review of the year. Word of the year Un-word of the year Youth word of the year (Germany) "Wort...
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  • Un-word of the year (German: Unwort des Jahres, pronounced [ˈʊnˌvɔʁt dɛs ˈjaːʁəs] ) is an annual selection of one new or recently popularized term that...
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  • The Youth word of the year (German: Jugendwort des Jahres) is an annual publication which reviews trends in German youth language and names one new or...
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  • Russia, the Word of the Year (Russian: Слово года) poll is carried out since 2007 by the Expert Council of the Centre for Creative Development of the Russian...
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    Årets ord (English: Word of the year) is named by the Language Council of Norway, since 2012 in cooperation with the Norwegian School of Economics. Choices...
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    blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together...
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    words from the English language. These word lists started in 2003 and have been published at the end of each year. The Words of the Year usually reflect...
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    The word was a runner-up for the Oxford Dictionaries 2014 Word of the Year. Barrett nominated it for the American Dialect Society's 2013 Word of the Year...
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  • The longest word in any given language depends on the word formation rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration...
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    Microsoft Word is a word processing program developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983, under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix...
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    In Portugal, the Word of the Year (Portuguese: Palavra do Ano) poll has been carried out since 2009 by the Porto Editora publishing house. Porto Editora...
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  • In Ukraine, the Word of the Year (Ukrainian: Слово року) poll is carried out since 2013 by Myslovo [uk] online user-generated dictionary of Ukrainian slang...
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    American Dialect Society (category History of education in the United States)
    announced a word of the year since 1977. Special votes that they've made: Word of the 1990s: web Word of the 20th Century: jazz Word of the Past Millennium:...
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  • also holds an annual Word of the year contest called "the New Word/Trendy Phrase Award [ja]" (Shingo ryūkōgo taishō), sponsored by the Jiyu Kokuminsha [ja]...
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  • Youth Word of the Year (Polish: Młodzieżowe Słowo Roku) is an annual poll organized by Polish Scientific Publishers PWN (Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN) since...
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  • They (redirect from Them (word))
    2008–2009. In December 2019, Merriam-Webster chose singular they as word of the year. The word was chosen because "English famously lacks a gender-neutral singular...
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  • Rizz (redirect from Rizz (word))
    virality on the social media application TikTok. Oxford University Press named it its word of the year for 2023. The popularity of the word in mid-2021...
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  • The University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) is a private, Catholic university with its main campus in San Antonio and Alamo Heights, Texas. Founded in 1881...
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  • staff of magazines presented artists or photographers with "Cover of the Year" accolades. Various dictionaries release their "Word of the Year." Other...
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  • Advanced learner's dictionary "The Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year 2022". "Cambridge Dictionary word of the year 2022 is a nod to Wordle". 17 November...
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  • Gyatt (redirect from Gyat (word))
    exclamation, such as "gyatt damn". In the 2020s, the word experienced a semantic shift and gained the additional meaning of "a person, usually a woman, with...
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  • Nigger (redirect from The N Word)
    replaced by the euphemistic contraction "the N-word", notably in cases where nigger is mentioned but not directly used. In an instance of linguistic reappropriation...
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  • The L Word is a television drama series that aired on Showtime in the U.S. from 2004 to 2009. The series follows the lives of a group of lesbian and bisexual...
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  • Swaffelen (category Sexuality in the Netherlands)
    and was named as the word of the year in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2008. The act of swaffelen often takes place in the form of teasing, crude humor...
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    globally the most used emoji that year, and was chosen as Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year for such, stating the emoji "was chosen as the 'word' that...
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  • The A Word is a British television drama series, based on the Israeli series Yellow Peppers. The series follows a young boy and how his family cope with...
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    The American Dialect Society's Word of the Year (WotY) are voted at the January American Dialect Society conference. The first year for which the word...
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    -ussy (redirect from Bussy (word))
    named the American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2022. Portmanteaus derived from pussy, referred to by Michael Dow (a linguist at the Université...
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  • views in the Word of Faith magazine in 1966, and subsequently founded a seminary training Word of Faith ministers.: 6–7  Distinctive Word of Faith teachings...
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