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Most ‘words of the year’ don’t actually tell us about the state of the world – here’s what I’d pick instead

By Tony Thorne, Director of Slang and New Language Archive, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College London

Words of the year do not have to be new coinages, but may be existing words that seem to have become particularly apposite or resonant.

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