Daily News | 2022’s “Word of the Year” proves we should stop this inane tradition
We should probably be grateful. If not for the Oxford English Dictionary’s inane pandering, we might not have realized what’s really needed to salvage our mother tongue:as Oxford’s Word of the Year laid bare everything that’s wrong with this clickbaity pseudo-tradition. The dictionary’s editors typically debate among themselves about which word perfectly captures the linguistic zeitgeist, but for 2022 they narrowed it down to three “words,” which they then tossed to a goofy online poll.
I generously use quotation marks around “words,” given that none of the three options should even qualify. The Oxford English Dictionary
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