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How Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year went from Latin to brainrot-maxxing: All 17 picks

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“How Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year went from Latin to brainrot-maxxing: All 17 picks”

In 2011, Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year was a five-syllable Latin word most people needed to look up. In 2026, it’s a gamer suffix with a spare X. That’s the whole story of the last fifteen years of English, and honestly, of us. (Quick math before the pedants arrive: Dictionary.com started naming a Word of the Year in 2010, with change*. Tergiversate was its second pick. So this story covers all 17 winners, from 2010 to 2026. We just start the punchline in 2011, because* change is a terrible…

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