More WOTYs
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Following up on yesterday's Macquarie announcement, here are some more 2024 Words Of The Year in Engish:
- Dictionary.com: demure (see also CNN's coverage, with more details and links)
- Collins Dictionary: brat (CNN's coverage)
- Cambridge Dictionary: manifest
- Oxford (voting — shortlist is slop, romantasy, lore, brain rot, demure, and dynamic pricing)
- Merriam-Webster — 2024 choice still pending
Wikipedia's Word of the year page tells us that this all started in 1971 with the German Wort des Jahres from the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, which has not announced its 2024 pick yet. The WotY concept was picked up in 1990 by the American Dialect Society, which makes the choice at a live nominating session and a live vote at its annual meeting. The ADS 2024 WotY will be selected at the 2025 conference:
The American Dialect Society will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America Thursday, January 9, through Sunday, January 12, 2025, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The meeting will be held at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.
The Wikipedia WotY page also links to lists from Austria, several regional German dialects, Denmark, Japan, Liechtenstein, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Switzerland, and Ukraine. In addition to the Wikipedia link, there's an internet page naming вайб (= "vibe") as the Russian WotY.
There don't seem to be any French, Italian, or Spanish WotYs, but maybe readers can supply some.
Coby said,
November 27, 2024 @ 9:50 am
For Spanish, an organization called Fundación del Español Urgente (www.fundeu.es) picks a palabra del año. Last year's was polarización. This year's hasn't been picked yet.