Category Archives: Word reference

Word of the year 2023

Posted on 22.12.2023 by Richard Samson

It’s that time of year. Dictionary publishers are telling us about the trends they have detected in 2023. In this article we focus on six English picks but later on we may open out the article to include items in … Continue reading →

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Word of the year 2022

Posted on 26.11.2022 by Richard Samson

This article, originally published on 26 November, was updated several times in the following weeks as remaining results were announced. The results for English word of the year 2022 are starting to come in. In some cases you can take … Continue reading →

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How climate change is impacting language globally

Posted on 19.09.2022 by Alan Runcieman

Are you currently experiencing solastalgia and perhaps a little morbique? It would be more than understandable if you are, even if you may be perplexed by the vocabulary that is currently emerging in relation to climate change. Solastalgia is a … Continue reading →

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Is language in decline?

Posted on 10.04.2022 by Richard Samson

Recently a student told me that he did not know the expressions agua de borrajas and vísteme despacio, que tengo prisa. Or maybe he had heard them but didn’t know what they meant. He went on to say that “desgraciadamente … Continue reading →

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NFT, vax, perseverance, strollout, vaccine

Posted on 15.12.2021 by Richard Samson

What do these words have in common? They are the English words of the year 2021, as chosen by lexicographers and users of various eminent anglosphere dictionaries. NFT NFT is the Collins Dictionary word of the year 2021. NFT, the … Continue reading →