Stop Trying to Make ‘Youthquake’ Happen: Readers Pick Their Words of the Year

Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year drew some bafflement and derision. We asked readers to do better. [Source]

Publication Date: Friday, 22 December 2017 at 17:57:55

Origin: nytimes.com

Category: Dictionaries

Topics: better, readers, asked, derision, bafflement, Dictionaries’, Oxford, Words, Their, Readers, Happen, ‘Youthquake’, Trying

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/arts/times-readers-pick-words-of-the-year.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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