Meaning of WOTY | Babel Free

Definitions

Initialism of word of the year.

abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Examples

“Given that recent years' WOTYs include Brexit (Collins English Dictionary, 2016), climate emergency (Oxford Languages, 2019), pandemic (Merriam-Webster, 2020), lockdown (Collins, 2020), doomscrolling (Macquarie Dictionary, 2020) and insurrection (American Dialect Society, 2021), it is perhaps inevitable that we would find ourselves in a "permacrisis" – Collins' pick for 2022.”

“Nothing in your original post (pasted below) says that the WotY is the "English" Word of the Year. To the contrary, it suggests that it is what the American Dialect Society considers WotY.”

“Please nominate your favo(u)rites and give arguments for their WotY-worthiness in the comments to this post. It might be helpful to see my reasoning on why past words were WotY worthy and other nominations weren't.”

“The fact that neologisms are often chosen as the ‘words of the year’ (WotY) also adds to the advantages of teaching these lexical units to students. WotY is a set of assessments as to the word or expression which reflects the most important concept in the public sphere during a specific year.”

“Probably independent from the present use -- it wasn't a WotY candidate in 2014!”

“In the first step, a selection of English neologisms was carried out, based on the word of the year (WotY) identified by the American Dialect Society from 2009 to 2019.”

“Although the tradition to select the Words of the Year (WotY) that have attracted a great deal of interest is fairly recent, it has already become quite popular.”

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