Word of the Year (USA)

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The Word of the Year ( Word of the Year , often called Woty was abbreviated) in the United States in 1990 and since then every year from the regular American Dialect Society selected. Since 2000, the Texan Global Language Monitor has also voted for a “Top Word of the year”. In addition, since 2004 Oxford University Press (publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary ) has chosen a “US Word of the Year”.

selection

To be word of the year, it must meet the following criteria:

  • the word must be new or have regained popularity,
  • it must have been used frequently or in particularly memorable contexts and
  • it must relate to an important topic or other aspect of the public discussion.

In addition to the word of the year, society also chooses words in a number of other categories, such as: B. The most useful word, the most creative word and the most unnecessary word.

All members of the society are entitled to vote. The word of the year is chosen by show of hands at the American Dialect Society's annual conference.

Words of the year

American Dialect Society

year Word of the year Meaning / explanation
1990 bushlips Loudly based on “bullshit,” refers to George HW Bush's campaign promise “Read my lips: no new taxes”, which he broke immediately after the election.
1991 mother of all From a speech by Saddam Hussein , see Mother of All Battles .
1992 Need! Subsequent notice that what was said before is not meant seriously.
1993 information superhighway Metaphor for the internet, see information superhighway
1994 cyber and morph See morphing
1995 web and (to) newt The second of the chosen words refers to an aggressive behavior, such as Newt Gingrich displayed .
1996 mom Mother.
1997 millennium bug Name for the year 2000 problem
1998 e- Prefix in words like “e-mail” and “e-commerce”.
1999 Y2K Name for the year 2000 problem .
2000 chad Name for the scraps of paper that are created when punching out with an American voting machine.
2001 9-11 Name for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001
2002 weapons of mass destruction Weapons of mass destruction
2003 metrosexual Term for metrosexuality
2004 red state , blue state , purple state Name for states that vote republican, democratic or mixed, see red states and blue states
2005 truthiness Name created by Stephen Colbert for “knowledge” based on gut instinct
2006 plutoed Term for a devaluation, which refers to the withdrawal of the planetary status of the planet Pluto .
2007 subprime Mortgages with low credit ratings, see subprime market
2008 bailout Debt assumption by third parties, see rescue operation (economy)
2009 tweet Message sent with the short message service Twitter .
2010 app Abbreviation for application , see application software .
2011 occupy Reference to the Occupy Wall Street movement .
2012 hashtag Character string with a preceding hash on Twitter, see hashtag .
2013 because English for "because" is used to prefix a noun , adjective, or other part of speech.
2014 #blacklivesmatter After the two African Americans Michael Brown and Eric Garner were shot dead by police officers in 2014 , thousands of people protested against racism and police violence . The hashtag #blacklivesmatter was used as a battle cry.
2015 they Actually the pronoun of the 3rd person plural , is also used as a gender-neutral pronoun of the 3rd person singular.
2016 dumpster fire Literally translated, it means “fire in a dumpster” and describes “an outstandingly disastrous or chaotic situation”.
2017 fake news According to the American Dialect Society, the meaning has changed from a term for disinformation to a political catchphrase.
2018 tender-age shelter In German, for example, “Accommodation for people of tender age”, a euphemism for prison camps in which the children of illegal immigrants are detained separately from their parents.
2019 (my) pronouns Introduces the communication of the third person singular preferred pronouns for oneself.
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The singular they was also chosen as the “word of the decade (2010-2019)”.

Global Language Monitor

  • 2000: chad
  • 2001: Ground Zero
  • 2002: misunderestimate
  • 2003: embedded
  • 2004: incivility
  • 2005: refugee
  • 2006: sustainable
  • 2007: hybrid
  • 2008: change
  • 2009: twitter
  • 2010: spillcam
  • 2011: occupy
  • 2012: apocalypse / armageddon (and variations thereof)
  • 2013: 404
  • 2014: the heart ♥ emoji (for love)

Oxford University Press

  • 2004: chav (also UK Word of the Year )
  • 2005: podcast
  • 2006: carbon-neutral
  • 2007: locavore
  • 2008: hypermiling
  • 2009: unfriend
  • 2010: refudiate
  • 2011: squeezed middle (also UK Word of the Year )
  • 2012: GIF (verb)
  • 2013: selfie (also UK Word of the Year )
  • 2014: vape (also UK Word of the Year )
  • 2015: ? (also UK Word of the Year )
  • 2016: post-truth (also UK Word of the Year )
  • 2017: youthquake (also UK Word of the Year )
  • 2018: toxic (also UK Word of the Year )
  • 2019: climate emergency (also UK Word of the Year )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Top Words of 2008 - 2000 ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 14, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.languagemonitor.com
  2. ↑ Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year: FAQ , accessed December 14, 2013
  3. ↑ 1998 Words of the Year . Americandialect.org. January 13, 1999. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  4. ↑ 1999 Words of the Year, Word of the 1990s, Word of the 20th Century, Word of the Millennium . Americandialect.org. January 13, 2000. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  5. ↑ 2000 Words of the Year . Americandialect.org. January 13, 2001. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  6. ↑ 2001 Words of the Year . Americandialect.org. January 13, 2002. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  7. ↑ 2002 Words of the Year . Americandialect.org. January 13, 2003. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  8. ↑ 2003 Words of the Year . Americandialect.org. January 13, 2004. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  9. ↑ Word of the Year (PDF; 139 kB) Americandialect.org. January 7, 2005. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  10. ↑ Truthiness Voted 2005 Word of the Year . Americandialect.org. January 6, 2006. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Plutoed" Voted 2006 Word of the Year . Americandialect.org. January 5, 2007. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  12. ↑ “Subprime” voted 2007 word of the year . Americandialect.org. January 4, 2008. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  13. ↑ American Dialect Society 2008 Word of the Year is “Bailout” . Americandialect.org. January 9, 2009. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  14. ↑ 2009 Word of the Year is “tweet”; Word of the Decade is “google” . Americandialect.org. January 8, 2010. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  15. ^ "App" voted 2010 word of the year by the American Dialect Society . Americandialect.org. January 8, 2011. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  16. ^ "Occupy" is the 2011 Word of the Year . Americandialect.org. January 6, 2012. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  17. ↑ “Hashtag” is the 2012 Word of the Year . Americandialect.org. January 4, 2013. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  18. ^ "Because" is the 2013 Word of the Year . Americandialect.org. January 3, 2012. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
  19. ↑ 2014 Word of the Year is “#blacklivesmatter” . Americandialect.org. January 9, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
  20. ↑ 2015 Word of the Year is “They” . Americandialect.org. January 8, 2016. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
  21. ^ "Dumpster fire" is the 2016 American Dialect Society word of the year. In: americandialect.org. January 6, 2017, accessed February 4, 2017 .
  22. ↑ “Fake news” is the 2017 American Dialect Society word of the year. Ameican Dialect Society , January 5, 2018, accessed March 2, 2018 .
  23. ^ "Tender-age shelter" is the 2018 American Dialect Society word of the year. In: American Dialect Society. January 5, 2019; Retrieved December 7, 2019 (American English).
  24. ↑ a b 2019 Word of the Year is “(My) Pronouns,” Word of the Decade is Singular “They”. In: American Dialect Society. January 4, 2020, accessed February 8, 2020 (American English).
  25. ↑ Word of the Year 2016 is… | Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved February 14, 2017 .
  26. ↑ Word of the Year 2017 is… Oxford Dictionaries, accessed on March 2, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Word of the Year 2018 is ... Accessed December 7, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Word of the Year 2019. Accessed December 7, 2019 .