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I have posted in the past about my appreciation for words. Thanks to participating in a webinar recently, I learned the leading official words of 2025 chosen by each of the major dictionaries

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The word of the year is the most important word or expression utilized in the public sphere which captures linguistically the social trends and global events reflecting our world during a specific year Enjoy!         

Slop (Merriam – Webster) –Low quality digital content produced in quantity with the aid of artificial intelligence. Video, fake news, altered advertisements, AI-written books, etc., etc., etc. The editors referenced the original evolution of the word dating back to the 1700s defining “soft mud”, slime, muck oozing everywhere to the 1800s to mean “food waste” (a.k.a. “pig slop”). Clearly any outcome considered “rubbish” or “a product of little or no value.”

Rage bait (Oxford) –Online content devised to increase traffic or engagement to a social digital platform. The content is typically designed to be provocative and offensive to prompt anger. Oxford’s lexicographers indicated the term’s (two words) usage increased significantly according to language data, thus viewed it as a single unit of meaning given the online debate over digital ethics.  

“67” (Dictionary.com) –A nonsensical slang term pronounced “six-seven”, never “sixty-seven” popularized by kids and teenagers as another way of saying “so-so, “maybe this” or “maybe that” peaked digitally in October 2025.

Stay tuned! In writing this post I also learned about the words of the year 2025 which made the short list for each publication. I plan to share these words with my readership in the future. In the interim, do you have any great new words to share?