Thursday, March 12, 2015

2014 Words of the Year

For your interest, here are some words that dominated popular culture in Australia, the US and UK during the last year.
Macquarie Dictionary
Mansplain (verb) - a man explaining something to a woman, in a way that is patronising because it assumes that a woman will be ignorant of the subject matter.
Category winners:

  *   Agriculture: crash grazing
  *   Arts: binge watching
  *   Business: drip pricing
  *   Colloquial: mansplain
  *   Communications: emoji
  *   Eating and drinking: share plate
  *   Environment: green electricity
  *   Fashion: loom band
  *   General Interest: decision fatigue
  *   Health: ambulance ramping
  *   Internet: typosquatting
  *   Politics: defund
  *   Social Interest: lifehacking - the application of strategies to simplify or improve one's life
  *   Sport: urban exploration
  *   Technology: selfie stick

Australian National Dictionary Centre
Shirtfront - to challenge or confront a person.

Oxford Dictionaries 2014 Word of the Year
Vape - to smoke an e-cigarettes via vaporised nicotine.

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