Nobody has ever heard of Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year

Online dictionaries like Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com pick their words of the year based on the frequency of lookups, hence the presence of popular words such as “feminism” and “complicit”. 

Oxford Dictionaries, instead, opts for a different, more complicated process, trying to select a word that captures the “the zeitgeist, that defining spirit or mood of the moment”, as President of Dictionaries Casper Grathwohl explained in a blog post. 

It has to be a term that embodies not only the social and political change of the past year but also reflects the change in the way we use language.  Read more…

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