Further, they even went so far as to pick the suffix "-ism" in 2015 as the word of the year, so clearly, WOTY contenders are not subject to a lot of hard and fast rules by those running the show ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. In 2003, Merriam-Webster kicked off the annual tradition of choosing a "word of the year," based on search volume on the dictionary publisher's website, which serves ...

More than 340,000 English speakers around the globe chose the word following a choice of three being put to the public. Advertisement “Metaverse” came in second, followed by “#IStandWith”.

Word of the year contests teach us something about our collective psyche.