#woty tracking
Ok so we've already had "sloppleganger" and now we've got "choppleganger" so I'm tentatively putting out "-ppleganger" as a #woty "most creative" candidate
#woty candidate
kibble
I wanna see this take off for #woty
In related news I really want a "missed connections" #WOTY category for words that never made it to the ballot or got very few votes but that slid into everyone's vocabulary anyway.
'nuremburg' the verb is going to be a strong #woty contender in 2026
This week, it's the highlight of any FMI Season, because Ben Zimmer joins Ryan and Brian to discuss the 2025 Word of the Year! There's still plenty of the same slop there's always been, but skip to the 31-minute mark if you're here for The Barnacle. #woty #crossword #podcast bemoresmarter.com/fmi
“Slop” also rose to the top of the #WOTY list at the American Dialect Society. It was already on the radar in 2024, nominated (as AI slop) for Digital Word of the Year. It lost that year to "brain rot," but it was gaining ground.
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The annual #WOTY selections are a way for dictionaries to boost PR, but they rarely agree on what that one word should be. But for 2025, many organizations converged on a single word: slop.
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We’re live with our all-star #WOTY panel! Ready to dive into the words that shaped 2025?
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Never chosen a word of the year before, but seen others & I was inspired.
After thinking on it, my word for 2026 is patience.
Something I struggle with. Something I need to learn… being forced to learn. A difficult lesson, but a life-changing and beneficial one.
#WOTY #Patience #SelfReflection
TOMORROW: That Word Chat’s #WOTY panel returns.
Experts from the OED, Merriam-Webster, the American Dialect Society, the University of Michigan, the University of Sussex, and Mashed Radish break down the words of 2025.
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"slop": American Dialect Society 2025 Word of the Year
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Bad-news links, the @americandialect.org word-of-the-year results, and feedback from my readers.
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Anche per l’American Dialect Society la parola del 2025 è “slop”: contenuti di infima qualità prodotti in quantità da intelligenza artificiale generativa
americandialect.org/wp-content/u... #WOTY
Ho descritto la rilevanza della parola #slop al programma “La lingua batte” di RAI Radio 3 ➜
Where can I see #woty nominations?
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Choosing Silliness on Purpose #WOTY debs-world.com/2026/01/05/c...
From a non-linguist friend: "Are you going to the (@americandialect.org) #WOTY thing again this year? It's my absolute favorite event to hear about secondhand from you!"
#Twixmas è finito ieri ma mi sono dimenticata di postare
www.terminologiaetc.it/2025/12/31/s... #WOTY
Word Of The Year – 2026 edition! #WOTY Heal
Another new year has arrived. Hello, 2026. And wishing you all a Happy New Year, too! Welcome to 2026! I feel like every year, recently, I step into the new tentatively, not fully convinced that what is going to be presented to me is going to be…
#woty folks, I know it’s not that new or special to this year but “skill issue” should get some love at some point. It’s really one of the great rhetorical advances of the English language
I was going to nominate "knock-on" -- as in "knock-on effects," much in the US news because of tariffs -- but it was the 2019 UK-to-US #woty!
separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2019/12/2019...
From @lynneguist.bsky.social: The UK-to-US word of the year is "fiddly."
separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2025/12/uk-t...
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#woty2025
A colorful digital vision board titled "My 2026 word-of-the-year" set against a blue-and-white grid background. At the top left, a rainbow sits above the word "Glimmers." The board features several photos: a person with curly hair listening to music with headphones, a vibrant sunset over a field of daisies, a person reading a book in bed, someone sitting at a desk by a window, and a green potted plant in the sunlight. Decorative elements include a unicorn pencil, a row of colorful hearts, a "Make it Happen!" sticker, and a small signpost pointing in two directions labeled "2026 Vibes."
Anyone else pick a Word-of-the-Year yet? What is it?
I finally picked mine. It's Glimmers! 🩷
I'm also sharing this Canva template in my latest post on Patreon if you want to make your own! www.patreon.com/posts/free-w...
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Come volevasi dimostrare: la spiegazione di “bio hacking”
data in Sette, il settimanale del Corriere della Sera, in un articolo su parole dell’anno in inglese. Peccato che #biohacking non c’entri nulla con “hackerare” e tantomeno con la biologia, che è una disciplina scientifica.
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