{"id":45262,"date":"2021-11-29T13:27:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T13:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/?p=45262"},"modified":"2021-12-20T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T11:46:11","slug":"word-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/word-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Each year dictionaries like Collins and Oxford publish their word of the year, they do that based on how many times people have looked for that word in the dictionary.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/nov\/24\/nft-is-collins-dictionary-word-of-the-year\">Collins\u2019s top word was NFT<\/a> which is an abbreviation of \u201cnon-fungible token\u201d. &nbsp;NFTs are certificates to say that you own something digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING NEWS The Collins Word of the Year is\u2026 NFT.<br><br>Find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CollinsWOTY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CollinsWOTY<\/a> 2021 and see the full list here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gmsnCqA0yv\">https:\/\/t.co\/gmsnCqA0yv<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wordoftheyear?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#wordoftheyear<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CollinsDictionary?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CollinsDictionary<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NFT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XPhUM7oIoZ\">pic.twitter.com\/XPhUM7oIoZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Collins Dictionary (@CollinsDict) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinsDict\/status\/1463297577114345473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/style\/article\/nft-word-of-the-year-collins-scli-intl-gbr\/index.html\">Oxford English Dictionary chose the word \u201cvax\u201d<\/a> as their word of the year saying that <em>&#8220;no word better captures the atmosphere of the past year than vax,&#8221;<\/em> a colloquialism meaning either vaccine or vaccination as a noun and vaccinate as a verb.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other words of the year from Collins dictionary were: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinsDict\/status\/1463523473389760514\" title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinsDict\/status\/1463523473389760514\">Cheugy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinsDict\/status\/1463447565760872454\">Climate anxiety<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinsDict\/status\/1463508311526027268\">Crypto<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinsDict\/status\/1463432438689026049\">Double-vaxxed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinsDict\/status\/1463462701703782402\">Metaverse<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we can see, these words make reference to COVID-19, the climate change or the new name \u201cmeta\u201d that Mark Zuckerberg gave to his company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, they are all related to events that have happened or are happening now in our society and that means that people look up for words that represent their interests, concerns and fears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you find interesting any of the words? 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