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The Wordsmyth Word Of The Year for 2020 was “social distancing.” This past year, 2021, has been another year of challenges due to our prolonged pandemic. We would like to invite you to reflect on this year and consider which word has drawn…
We are proud to announce Wordsmyth Word of the Year 2020, selected by the votes of members of the Wordsmyth community. Here are a selection of the comments from our users who voted for the word social distancing. This is a common theme…
Some of the comments about our nominations reveal your desire to have an open nomination process for WOTY. Here are a few of the words our users felt were missing from the nominations: I voted for ‘social distancing’ because I could not submit…
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Progress update on WOTY 2020
The Wordsmyth educational mission is to foster awareness of how words work in communication, and our WOTY nominations this year have drawn attention to the way words work in society. This has been such an extraordinary year—bringing many new words and concepts to…