Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Public Address Word of the Year 2017 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377941#post377941 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377941#post377941 In 2010, of course, Public Address readers bypassed the news and opted for a neologism – the great ungendered insult that was “twatcock”.

So yeah, as I highlighted earlier last year after holding my tongue on the issue for a very.long.time, this is a dyadist neologism. It is, as you…

]]> Fri, 12 Jan 2018 20:05:21 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377792#post377792 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377792#post377792 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NAikcQtuz4 ]]> Thu, 21 Dec 2017 10:35:07 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377791#post377791 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377791#post377791 Thu, 21 Dec 2017 10:26:50 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377788#post377788 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377788#post377788 So Jacindamania wins WotY – and it is a word – 'a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing' ....

But the two runner-ups are phrases – 'a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit'.

]]> Thu, 21 Dec 2017 09:14:55 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377759#post377759 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377759#post377759 That’s enough to work with.
Taranakigate?
...it's an open and shut case.

]]> Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:59:14 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377758#post377758 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377758#post377758 Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:12:29 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377757#post377757 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377757#post377757 Damn there goes Jacindagate!

Contrarily…again one might point out the precedent there. A recent WaPo article drawing on research published in May, explored this trend:

When their male colleagues were introduced at conferences, they were usually called “Doctor.” But the men introduced them and other female doctors by their first…

]]> Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:28:22 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377755#post377755 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377755#post377755 Given the neologism is such a blatant derivative of a globally recognised precedent
Damn there goes Jacindagate!
;- )

In the beginning was the Word
I note ‘Phrase of the Year’ has crept into the ‘Word of the Year’ finalists…
Surely this is beyond the pale?
Only the unitary…

]]> Tue, 19 Dec 2017 08:47:52 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377749#post377749 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377749#post377749 IT'S VOTIN' TIME!

https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/public-address-word-of-the-year-2017-time/

]]> Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:25:24 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377736#post377736 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377736#post377736 PostNeoliberal

Inspired by Brian Eston and the mazing exhibition by Simon Denny on at at Michael Lett Gallery.

There was a fascinating reaction to this at the IRL , not least the hosts, who viewed it as a term of abuse. I suppose polite people would say PostLibertarian. Not as…

]]> Mon, 18 Dec 2017 04:03:45 +1300 Ian Williamson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377735#post377735 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377735#post377735 PostNeoliberal

Inspired by Brian Eston and the mazing exhibition by Simon Denny on at at Michael Lett Gallery.

There was a fascinating reaction to this at the IRL , not least the hosts, who viewed it as a term of abuse. I suppose polite people would say PostLibertarian. Not as…

]]> Sun, 17 Dec 2017 20:36:25 +1300 linger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377733#post377733 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377733#post377733 Jacindamaniamania. ]]> Sun, 17 Dec 2017 16:27:20 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377731#post377731 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377731#post377731 let it be. ]]> Sun, 17 Dec 2017 11:11:22 +1300 TracyMac https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377730#post377730 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377730#post377730 I'd be interested in your citation re your coining being more grammatically "correct".

Sure, we don't cap-up normal nouns in English, but since this one is based on a proper noun (belonging to a natural, live, person), it seems stylistically inelegant not to leave the cap in.

In fact, I…

]]> Sun, 17 Dec 2017 03:06:35 +1300 Ian Pattison https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377721#post377721 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377721#post377721 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 12:00:41 +1300 Ian Pattison https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377720#post377720 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377720#post377720 I can't see how 'Jacaindamania' didn't have the greatest impact on everyone here in NZ, certainly more so than any words that came in from overseas.

'jacindamania' for word of the year. I've even added it to my dictionaries.

]]> Sat, 16 Dec 2017 11:54:19 +1300 Kat L https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377719#post377719 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377719#post377719 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 11:18:56 +1300 Katita https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377718#post377718 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377718#post377718 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 10:45:51 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377716#post377716 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377716#post377716 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 10:02:24 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377715#post377715 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377715#post377715 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 09:29:46 +1300 Kat L https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377714#post377714 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377714#post377714 Sat, 16 Dec 2017 08:30:57 +1300 Rachel Prosser https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377708#post377708 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377708#post377708 Absolutely!

Meaning 'quite'

]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2017 23:44:42 +1300 Rachel Prosser https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377707#post377707 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377707#post377707 #iammetiria. : it opened up the debate on poverty

Jacindamania

#metoo

]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2017 23:43:51 +1300 Trevor Nicholls https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377706#post377706 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377706#post377706 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 22:35:43 +1300 Kat L https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377703#post377703 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377703#post377703 The feels when (barf)
Optics

]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2017 21:17:22 +1300 william blake https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377702#post377702 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377702#post377702 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 18:52:21 +1300 Katharine Moody https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377700#post377700 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377700#post377700 Wadeable

Never heard before as a measure of water quality – so in that regard it is unique to NZ – and could only have come from a previous winner, that being 'Planet Key'.

]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:29:03 +1300 Juliet Moore https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377699#post377699 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377699#post377699 Frose!

Frozen + Rose

It's delicious, it merges two great things together and its 'so hot right now'!

]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:24:29 +1300 Ann Duncan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377696#post377696 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377696#post377696 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:42:41 +1300 JLM https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377692#post377692 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377692#post377692 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 12:13:53 +1300 JessicaRose https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377691#post377691 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377691#post377691 Just going to echo some of the ones I've read that I want to give a second for:

Covfefe
Let's do this
Smashed avo
Fake News

]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2017 12:10:15 +1300 Matt Godfrey https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377689#post377689 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377689#post377689 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:54:58 +1300 Vivid https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377688#post377688 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377688#post377688 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:46:09 +1300 Vivid https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377687#post377687 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377687#post377687 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:46:03 +1300 Vivid https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377686#post377686 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377686#post377686 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:45:55 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377684#post377684 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377684#post377684 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:21:34 +1300 Martin Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377683#post377683 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377683#post377683 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:13:04 +1300 Martin Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377682#post377682 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377682#post377682 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:11:52 +1300 kiwifarang https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377678#post377678 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377678#post377678 Kaikoura

SH1

So happy that the coast road and Nin's Bins are open again.

]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:47:54 +1300 Jonathan Maze https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377667#post377667 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377667#post377667 Alternative facts.

Virtue signalling.

]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:15:33 +1300 Craig Young https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377664#post377664 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377664#post377664 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:10:27 +1300 simon g https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377662#post377662 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377662#post377662 Time magazine "Person of year" yardstick, isn't it? Hitler, Stalin and Trump get the gong, but no approval should be inferred. ]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:03:40 +1300 Sue Street https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377660#post377660 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377660#post377660 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:59:39 +1300 James Littlewood* https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377659#post377659 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377659#post377659 Please, not Jacindamania. I object!

Unless, that is, you want PAS to establish itself as nothing other than a partial bunch of happy clappy kumbaya choristers.

]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:56:34 +1300 James Littlewood* https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377657#post377657 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377657#post377657 Nicky Hager.

For services to journalism and democracy.

]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:52:47 +1300 James Littlewood* https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377656#post377656 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377656#post377656 Rivers.

It's a word, and a nice one. They connect us all, geographically, economically and culturally.

They are the canaries in our collective coal mine.

]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:51:22 +1300 Ann Duncan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377652#post377652 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377652#post377652 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:44:04 +1300 Scott Ferguson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377647#post377647 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377647#post377647 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:16:28 +1300 william blake https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377646#post377646 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377646#post377646 Rahui.

Peakbee.

]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2017 08:52:50 +1300 simon g https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377640#post377640 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377640#post377640 Jacindamania is definitely the word of the half-year. But as with all annual retrospectives, anything that happened in the early months tends to get less attention than it deserves (ask the Halberg or Oscar contenders).

So a few oldies to balance things up ...

Burnham / Hit and Run
Defamation…

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 23:35:56 +1300 Ken Sparks https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377639#post377639 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377639#post377639 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:53:30 +1300 dave stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377638#post377638 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377638#post377638 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:42:56 +1300 Kyle MacDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377637#post377637 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377637#post377637 I was going to go for “majority” but since that’s already been nominated how about
“plurality” seeing no one in NZ knows what it means.

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 21:05:30 +1300 Ian Tinkler https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377635#post377635 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377635#post377635 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 20:12:08 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377634#post377634 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377634#post377634 Brexitrump (global)
Jacindamania (local)

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:57:56 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377633#post377633 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377633#post377633 Twitter presidency
the resistance

Almost every night at the given hour his edicts appear on the timelines. When they do the regulars step up to deliver their barrage of heckles, rebuttals, memes, flaming hot takes, sycophancy, retweets, comment retweets, b l o c k s, mutes and threads to, for…

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:40:34 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377632#post377632 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377632#post377632 From the moment Rob S prematurely nominated Jacindamania on the 2016 thread 20 days ago this year's WOTY was always going to be one of controversy.

With question marks hanging over Felix Geringer's nomination due to a failure to comply with terms of the agreement:

So you can only propose…

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 19:28:00 +1300 FletcherB https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377628#post377628 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377628#post377628 Tinned spaghetti pizza

I do not want tinned pizza, no-matter what flavour you offer me.. :D

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:28:48 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377627#post377627 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377627#post377627 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:58:23 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377626#post377626 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377626#post377626 Paddles

Tinned spaghetti pizza

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:54:55 +1300 Cushla D https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377625#post377625 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377625#post377625 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:08:50 +1300 Carol Stewart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377623#post377623 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377623#post377623 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:25:34 +1300 Alex Mackenzie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377622#post377622 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377622#post377622 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:59:24 +1300 kiwifarang https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377621#post377621 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377621#post377621 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:23:57 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377617#post377617 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377617#post377617 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:47:59 +1300 Brent Jackson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377614#post377614 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377614#post377614 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:25:24 +1300 richard maclean https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377608#post377608 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377608#post377608 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:37:08 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377606#post377606 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377606#post377606 Jacindamania
This remarkably popular woman almost singlehandedly

One feature of Jacindamania I’ve had difficulty evaluating with regards to Ardern’s initial criticisms of Turei and the subsequent boycott is the extent to which Jacindamania was dependent on signalling to the beneficiary bashing cohort.

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:39:59 +1300 Daniel Wilton https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377605#post377605 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377605#post377605 Actually thinking about it the hashtag that has had the most affect has really been the #metoo movement

So..... ah...yeah

#metoo

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:30:43 +1300 Daniel Wilton https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377604#post377604 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377604#post377604 Should it be something around the "Jacinda fu#ckin Ardern, F#ckin Affect"

Stardust?

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:29:33 +1300 Doug Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377603#post377603 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377603#post377603 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:23:12 +1300 Doug Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377602#post377602 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377602#post377602 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:22:00 +1300 Doug Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377601#post377601 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377601#post377601 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:21:46 +1300 Jacob Powell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377600#post377600 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377600#post377600

Youth Adjacent

Lol, yes!

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:17:59 +1300 Jacob Powell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377599#post377599 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377599#post377599 Avocado (avo-can't-own)
Jacindamania
Cryptofascist

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:17:36 +1300 Ken Sparks https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377597#post377597 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377597#post377597 Jacindamania
This remarkably popular woman almost singlehandedly turned her party’s fortunes around and (with a bit of help from Winston) led it back into power..

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:45:03 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377591#post377591 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377591#post377591 Omnishambles

funny how this one comes up nearly every year :)

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:07:21 +1300 JessicaRose https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377590#post377590 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377590#post377590 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:01:31 +1300 Jeremy Andrew https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377587#post377587 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377587#post377587 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:52:04 +1300 Jeremy Andrew https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377586#post377586 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377586#post377586 Looking for a nice positive option, I nominate 2017 as the year of the Space Maori.
Can anyone here come up with a Te Reo translation of Space Maori?

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:51:33 +1300 Euan Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377585#post377585 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377585#post377585 Water quality
Swimmable
Wadeable
Zealandia

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:38:49 +1300 Robin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377584#post377584 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377584#post377584 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:29:52 +1300 David Ritchie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377583#post377583 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377583#post377583 Cyclors
Paddles

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:26:40 +1300 Neil Heslop https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377582#post377582 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377582#post377582 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:18:37 +1300 Kebabette https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377580#post377580 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377580#post377580 My triumvirate:

Jacinda
Te Reo Māori
sea levels

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:11:38 +1300 Paula Browning https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377578#post377578 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377578#post377578 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:07:40 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377576#post377576 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377576#post377576 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 06:31:49 +1300 Trevor Nicholls https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377575#post377575 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377575#post377575 moral mandate
Thor Ragnarok
280
handmaids
child poverty
shortfall

]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:20:44 +1300 Tim Gray https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377574#post377574 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377574#post377574 Forget “Ombudsman”, if a phrase really can win I’m going with “thoughts and prayers”, or #thoughtsandprayers if we’re ready for another hashtag.

Probably doesn’t require much explanation?

]]> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 23:30:54 +1300 Warren Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377573#post377573 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377573#post377573 Did we do Trumpocolopse yet ?

(My auto correct wants that to be 'colony collapse' heh)

]]> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:35:05 +1300 mpledger https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377571#post377571 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377571#post377571 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:52:33 +1300 richard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377570#post377570 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377570#post377570 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:38:42 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377569#post377569 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377569#post377569 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:36:06 +1300 Matt Godfrey https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377567#post377567 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377567#post377567 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:59:45 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377566#post377566 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377566#post377566 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:58:44 +1300 FletcherB https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377565#post377565 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377565#post377565 BONUS: There’s also a $100 voucher for Rockefeller Oyster Bar, to be awarded at the judges’ dsicretion.

Completely not expecting to win… “dsicretion” might not make WOTY, but it might get me a prize at the judges discretion? :)

]]> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:49:25 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377564#post377564 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377564#post377564 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:29:21 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377563#post377563 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377563#post377563 1. Coalition. The election was about choosing the future or the past. Winston went with the future.
In some ways, this is the most MMP government NZ has had in the 21 years of MMP. Many of us dreamed of having a parliamentary system where parties who didn't agree on…

]]> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:16:20 +1300 Warren Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377562#post377562 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377562#post377562 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:51:11 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377560#post377560 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377560#post377560 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:40:23 +1300 RichardBody https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377559#post377559 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377559#post377559 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:36:08 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377558#post377558 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377558#post377558 waru
OpportunisticParty

]]> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:26:38 +1300 Mark Easterbrook https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377557#post377557 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377557#post377557 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:05:00 +1300 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377556#post377556 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377556#post377556 Jacindalove

Maori snowflake

]]> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:04:00 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377555#post377555 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377555#post377555 FirstCatofNZ or
First Cat of NZ

]]> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:48:13 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377554#post377554 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377554#post377554 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:30:12 +1300 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377553#post377553 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377553#post377553 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:26:29 +1300 mark taslov https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377552#post377552 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377552#post377552 WeAreBeneficiaries
#istandwithmetiria
Feminism
#transmilitaryban
Pretty Communist
Te Reo
Coalition talks
Majority
Child Poverty

]]> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:26:09 +1300 Soon Lee https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377551#post377551 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377551#post377551 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:24:37 +1300 Pete Sime https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377550#post377550 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377550#post377550 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:19:24 +1300 David Ritchie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377549#post377549 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377549#post377549 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:12:22 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377548#post377548 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377548#post377548 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:08:50 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377547#post377547 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377547#post377547 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:08:31 +1300 Martin Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377546#post377546 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377546#post377546 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:07:05 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377545#post377545 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377545#post377545 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:05:46 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377544#post377544 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377544#post377544 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:05:44 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377543#post377543 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377543#post377543 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:04:49 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377542#post377542 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377542#post377542 Metiria ]]> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:04:34 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377541#post377541 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377541#post377541 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:04:24 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377540#post377540 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377540#post377540 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:04:07 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377539#post377539 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377539#post377539 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:03:46 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377538#post377538 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377538#post377538 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:03:34 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377537#post377537 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377537#post377537 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:03:14 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377536#post377536 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377536#post377536 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:02:59 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377535#post377535 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377535#post377535 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:02:40 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377534#post377534 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377534#post377534 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:02:24 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377533#post377533 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377533#post377533 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:02:06 +1300 Lew Stoddart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377532#post377532 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377532#post377532 Fake news. This has been the year of fake news, and it will be fake news if fake news doesn't win.

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]]> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:02:01 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377531#post377531 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377531#post377531 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:01:56 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377530#post377530 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377530#post377530 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:01:38 +1300 Felix Geiringer https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377529#post377529 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377529#post377529 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:01:20 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377528#post377528 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377528#post377528 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:01:20 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377527#post377527 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377527#post377527 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:01:09 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377526#post377526 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377526#post377526 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:01:07 +1300 Stephen C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377524#post377524 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377524#post377524 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:00:56 +1300 Felix Geiringer https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377523#post377523 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377523#post377523 I feel like I get beaten to the punch every year. So, sorry about this in advance, but here are all my nominations together.
From our election: Jacindamania.
From Trump: Covfefe.
From the UK: Corbynite.
From Australia: Plebiscite.
From the America’s Cup: Foiling.
From Hollywood: Weinstein.
From Hager: Naik, and…

]]> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:00:53 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377522#post377522 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377522#post377522 Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:00:23 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377521#post377521 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-6/?p=377521#post377521 Discussion from blog post.

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