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Given that recent years' WOTYs include Brexit (Collins English Dictionary, 2016), climate emergency (Oxford Languages, 2019), pandemic (Merriam-Webster, 2020), lockdown (Collins, 2020), doomscrolling (Macquarie Dictionary, 2020) and insurrection (American Dialect Society, 2021), it is perhaps inevitable that we would find ourselves in a "permacrisis" – Collins' pick for 2022.
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Nothing in your original post (pasted below) says that the WotY is the "English" Word of the Year. To the contrary, it suggests that it is what the American Dialect Society considers WotY.
Source: wiktionary
Please nominate your favo(u)rites and give arguments for their WotY-worthiness in the comments to this post. It might be helpful to see my reasoning on why past words were WotY worthy and other nominations weren't.
Source: wiktionary
The fact that neologisms are often chosen as the ‘words of the year’ (WotY) also adds to the advantages of teaching these lexical units to students. WotY is a set of assessments as to the word or expression which reflects the most important concept in the public sphere during a specific year.
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