http://www.metafilter.com/tags/woty Posts tagged with 'woty' at MetaFilter. Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:47:52 -0800 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:47:52 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/121780/YOLO%2Dwith%2Dit Oxford Dictionaries' 2012 words of the year have been chosen: <a href="http://blog.oup.com/2012/11/oxford-dictionaries-usa-word-of-the-year-2012-gif/">for the US, it's "gif" (as a verb)</a>; <a href="http://blog.oup.com/2012/11/oxford-dictionaries-uk-word-of-the-year-2012-omnishambles/">for the UK, "omnishambles."</a> It contended for this crown with the likes of "YOLO," "superstorm," and "nomophobia." Previous Oxford words of the year can be found here (other notable year-end word lists such as those from <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/woy_archive.htm">Merriam-Webster</a>, the <a href="http://www.americandialect.org/woty">American Dialect Society</a>, and the <a href="http://www.languagemonitor.com/">Global Language Monitor</a>, have yet to appear). tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.121780 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:47:52 -0800 dictionary gif memes oed oxford vocabulary wordoftheyear words woty BlackLeotardFront