From planking to occupying, check out the words that defined the past year. For more, head to our Top 10 of Everything list, and check out our reader poll for Word of the Year.
NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of our vocabulary includes useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
In this special edition of NewsFeed’s Wednesday Words column, our resident vocabulary nut rounds up proposed “words of the year.” Vote for the one that really deserves the title.
Lexicographers from the Oxford English Dictionary have come together to pick the one word (or two) that defines the past year. In 2011, it was all about the “squeezed middle.”
A: Enforced or extreme economy. B: Merriam-Webster’s most searched word in 2010.
One of the most mocked Twitter blunders of the year just got a boost in prestige.
