551 Capital vs Capitol. Citing Podcasts and Websites

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

Society & Culture, Education

4.5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0	Gramer Girl here, I'm Minion Fogarty and this week I have a rundown of the words of
0:10.4	the year in a meaty middle about how you can become a better writer in 2017.
0:16.7	And now let's get on to the words of the year.
0:19.6	Online dictionaries aren't just convenient, they give the people who run the dictionary
0:23.5	sites a view into the zeitgeist in a way that was never possible when people looked up
0:28.4	words in physical books.
0:30.6	Lexicographers see data about what visitors are looking up and naming words of the year
0:35.6	based on search spikes or overall increases in search volume for particular words has become
0:40.4	a tradition.
0:42.3	This year it's pretty clear that political news and events were driving searches.
0:47.8	Marium Webster's word of the year for 2016 was surreal, which the Lexicographers had
0:53.7	spiked after the terror attack in Brussels in March.
0:57.6	Again in July related to a coup attempt in Turkey and a terror attack in Nice and finally
1:03.0	again in November after the US presidential election.
1:06.7	Their definition of surreal is, quote, marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream,
1:13.0	unquote.
1:14.3	Highlighting the influence of US politics other top Marium Webster searches in 2016 were
1:20.1	bigly, which is a word better readily used word, deplorable and feckless which Mike Pants
1:26.6	used in a vice presidential debate.
1:29.4	Dictionary.com also cited search spikes caused by global political events as the reason for
1:34.7	choosing its word of the year xenophobia, which their dictionary defines as quote, fear
1:40.2	or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures or strangers, unquote.
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