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Has 2024 been brat? Maybe it was more demure, or did your brain rot? Here are all the 'words of the year'
1 month, 1 week ago

Has 2024 been brat? Maybe it was more demure, or did your brain rot? Here are all the 'words of the year'

ABC  

From demure to manifest and plenty of enshittification, 2024 had it all, it seems. 'Brat' Let's start with "brat" — the Collins Dictionary Word of the Year for 2024. 'Enshittification' Moving away from brat and straight over to "enshittification", which was Macquarie Dictionary's 2024 Word of the Year. Macquarie Dictionary names 'enshittification' its 2024 Word of the Year Photo shows …

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Fine 12th-century books to go under hammer in Beijing
1 year, 11 months ago

Fine 12th-century books to go under hammer in Beijing

China Daily  

An edition of a 12th-century dictionary will be sold in February. For example, Lou Ji, a scholar-official from the Southern Song Dynasty, compiled a dictionary of selected characters from two noteworthy writings of history, Han Shu by Ban Gu and Shiji by Sima Qian. Centuries later, several editions of this dictionary entered the imperial court of Qing Dynasty and were …

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Fine 12th-century books to go under hammer in Beijing
1 year, 11 months ago

Fine 12th-century books to go under hammer in Beijing

China Daily  

An edition of a 12th-century dictionary will be sold in February. For example, Lou Ji, a scholar-official from the Southern Song Dynasty, compiled a dictionary of selected characters from two noteworthy writings of history, Han Shu by Ban Gu and Shiji by Sima Qian. Centuries later, several editions of this dictionary entered the imperial court of Qing Dynasty and were …

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Word of the Year 2022: 'Gaslighting', 'goblin mode', 'homer' among top words that defined 2022
2 years ago

Word of the Year 2022: 'Gaslighting', 'goblin mode', 'homer' among top words that defined 2022

India Today  

The year 2022 has come to an end and amongst the hundreds of words added to all the popular dictionaries, a few stand out, including terms such as ‘goblin mode’, ‘gaslighting’, The Word of the Year reflects the mood or preoccupations of the masses in the past 12 months and is a term of lasting cultural significance. Here are the …

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Learn English: 'Goblin Mode' Named As Word Of Year by Oxford Dictionary, What is Means?
2 years, 1 month ago

Learn English: 'Goblin Mode' Named As Word Of Year by Oxford Dictionary, What is Means?

News 18  

The Oxford English Dictionary has chosen the slang term “goblin mode” as the word of the year, using a public vote for the first time in its history. “Goblin mode” is a slang term that is used to describe a type of behaviour, which is “unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or …

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Merriam-Webster's 2021 word of the year is, of course, 'vaccine'
3 years, 1 month ago

Merriam-Webster's 2021 word of the year is, of course, 'vaccine'

NPR  

Merriam-Webster's 2021 word of the year is, of course, 'vaccine' Enlarge this image toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images Spencer Platt/Getty Images In 2020, the Merriam-Webster dictionary selected "pandemic" as its word of the year. And lookups of "vaccine" jumped by 535% in August, which Merriam-Webster says is because "discussions about policy, approval, and vaccination rates — rather than the vaccine …

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TMC Minister’s Film Dropped at Goa Film Festival; Bratya Basu Says It’s Politics
3 years, 2 months ago

TMC Minister’s Film Dropped at Goa Film Festival; Bratya Basu Says It’s Politics

News 18  

TMC leader Bratya Basu, also a filmmaker, alleges that his film, Dictionary, which was initially selected for screening at the 52nd International Film Festival, Goa scheduled to take place from November 20 to 29 was dropped at the last minute on flimsy grounds. Basu alleges that his film was among the 25 films which were part of the screening package …

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Merriam-Webster Singles Out Nonbinary 'They' For Word Of The Year Honors
5 years, 1 month ago

Merriam-Webster Singles Out Nonbinary 'They' For Word Of The Year Honors

NPR  

Merriam-Webster Singles Out Nonbinary 'They' For Word Of The Year Honors Enlarge this image toggle caption Jenny Kane/AP Jenny Kane/AP There are plenty of flashpoints for controversy littered among the grand pantheon of four-letter words. Sponsor Message "English famously lacks a gender-neutral singular pronoun to correspond neatly with singular pronouns like everyone or someone, and as a consequence they has …

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