Post by: AngelOfThyNight on December 16, 2019, 11:00:42 AM
Together, the most important words of 2019 -- those designated by leading dictionaries as their "words of the year" -- tell a story. On Tuesday, Merriam-Webster selected the nonbinary pronoun "they," which was only added to their dictionary in September, citing a 313% boost in lookups. Dictionary.com went with "existential," inspired by climate change, gun violence and former Vice President Joe Biden's remarks about President Donald Trump constituting "an existential threat to America." Meanwhile, Oxford chose a phrase as its word of the year: "climate emergency," which was "100 times as common" this year as it was in 2018.
Source: Gen Z is trying to save us - if only we'd let them (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/JMRGyaye6ic/index.html)