Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2014
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Lorde
The word on everybody's dark-lipsticked lips.
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Sacha, in reply to
wow. how did we miss that one?
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Robyn Gallagher, in reply to
Lorde
The word on everybody’s dark-lipsticked lips.
FYI, it was the #7 word in last year's poll.
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Josh Petyt, in reply to
We didn't. Grant McDougall suggested it back on page 2.
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Sacha, in reply to
phew. how did *I* miss it?
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Lorde should win the WOTY, even if only because I'm tired of the corrosive base nastiness of #dirtypolitics.
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Katharine Moody, in reply to
Lorde should win the WOTY, even if only because I’m tired of the corrosive base nastiness of #dirtypolitics.
'Frozen' was much bigger :-).
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Sacha, in reply to
true. there's another word
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Inequality?
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Robust
Ede
GOFFEDESISEDESLATERMSM ____JK (out of the loop eh)
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To be fair, "Lorde" was buzzier in 2013. Another word should get a shot this year.
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Has anyone mentioned the very positive 'twitteraunties'?
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Lilith __, in reply to
To be fair, “Lorde” was buzzier in 2013. Another word should get a shot this year.
Seems pretty buzzy to me...
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Peak beard
Textses
My bad
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Monkey Selfie
It's the animal kingdom's critique of the entire human race.
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Priminstersoffice.
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Muppet
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We should never forget #dirty politics
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Black Ops
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Well! I'll be......(fill in expletive here)
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Ebola
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Russell Brown, in reply to
There’s another one: Taxpayers’ Onion. Though it might have been a Freudian slip on Russell’s part.
Oh no. It was very deliberate.
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Sorry for more politics, but it was an election year. To "hijack the election" was an often repeated phrase during the campaign, used against anyone raising an election issue the user didn't want to discuss.
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Robyn Gallagher, in reply to
Has anyone mentioned the very positive ‘twitteraunties’?
FYI, #8 on last year's list.
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As a reminder, here's the winners list from 2013. Some of the terms have bleed through to 2014, but others, like Wewege and twerking, are solid icons of 2013.
1. Metadata
2. Fuckstrating
3. Selfie
4. Beersies
5. Berm
6. Big Gay Rainbow
7. Lorde
8. #twitteraunties
9. Wewege
10=Rape Culture
10=Twerking
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