“Permacrisis” is 2022 Collins Dictionary Word of the Year!
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The editors of the Collins English Dictionary have chosen the word “Permacrisis” as the dictionary word for 2022. The word “permacrisis” was chosen from a list of 10 words and phrases.
Six of them are new to the dictionary, like “splooting,” “sportswashing,” and “lawfare.”
The word “permanent” is what the prefix “Perma” means. It comes from a root word in Proto-Indo-European that means roughly “to stay.”
The Oxford English Dictionary now has the words poisonous, post-truth, and climate emergency on its list of new words.
This is also the first time the term “medical indigence” has been used. It means that a person doesn’t have enough money to get medical treatment or pay for it.
Key facts!
- The editors of the dictionary looked through billions of words to find the right one to describe how it feels to be thrown from one thing that has never happened before to the next.
- There have been temperatures that have never been seen before, terrible floods, slow economies, persistent COVID-19 infections, a war in Ukraine that has done a lot of damage, and more inequality.
- The Collins English Dictionary recently announced that “permacrisis” will be the word of the year for 2022.
- A permacrisis is a long time of instability and uncertainty, which the dictionary says is usually caused by a series of disasters.
- For the words of the year, the editors at Collins look through a database with billions and billions of words.
- They also look at newspapers and social media feeds from time to time to find new words and signs that they are being used more.
- The word “permacrisis” was chosen from a list of 10 words and phrases, of which six are new to the dictionary.
- Among them are:
- splooting, which means lying on your stomach with your legs spread out
- sportswashing, which means sponsoring or promoting sporting events to fix a bad reputation,
- and lawfare, which means using the legal system to scare or stop an opponent.
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BREAKING NEWS The Collins Word of the Year is… permacrisis.
— Collins Dictionary (@CollinsDict) November 1, 2022
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