If you're a regular listener and you already heard Cory's stamper in me chat a few weeks

ago about the early words of the year such as goblin mode and woman but I also

around my own contest on most of my social media channels and we now have a

grammar girl word of the year inflation. It's not the word I would have chosen

my favorites were Slava Ukraine which means glory to Ukraine democracy polarized

and either long-covid or omicron to represent the pandemic but inflation is the

word my followers chose so that's the word I've always known I'm not like most

people. Anyway the specific question that got us to inflation was what word best

describes the zeitgeist of 2022 and we voted in brackets like the baseball

playoffs that was my husband's idea and the brackets were fun but I do

wonder if it would have turned out differently if we'd voted in a different way.

My editor Adam wants to do ranked choice voting next year so in the final

bracket inflation beat out quiet quitting by 6.5% and as an aside quiet

quitting was just chosen as the American dialect society is most likely to

succeed word of 2022. It was a close vote though and it barely beat out

Riz which is short for charisma. Another interesting thing is that LinkedIn

largely drove the results since people voted there in the biggest numbers.

For example quiet quitting actually won the final vote on mastodon and

among my newsletter subscribers but more than 2,500 people voted on LinkedIn

which favored inflation and that huge numbers swamped out the results from

the other platforms. That actually happened throughout the voting as

Corian I talked about earlier and it's probably why we ended up with one final

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