Word Of The Year 2022 – part 2

2023-01-14

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Last week we posted part 1 of our traditional mini-series, Word Of The Year. After 2019’s “climate emergency”, 2020’s “pandemic” and 2021’s “vax”, at the end of 2022, with 93 percent of the total votes, a Word Of The Year for 2022 was announced: “goblin mode”

One of the vivid descriptions or unofficial definitions that you can find in the Oxford corpus is: “Goblin mode is like when you wake up at 2am and shuffle into the kitchen wearing nothing but a long t-shirt to make a weird snack, like melted cheese on saltines”, as quoted in The Guardian newspaper. An article in The Times stated that “too many of us… have gone ‘goblin mode’ in response to a difficult year.”

As every year, in part 2 of this post we are digging deep:
We looked into the detailed annual report that was published on Word of the Year.

If you want to find out more about Word Of The Year for 2022, or the two other words/phrases in the top 3 for last year,

click on the link below:

https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2022/