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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						Righto folks, thanks very much that's the conclusion of the discussion stage. Voting starts tomorrow!
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				<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2018 10:25:23 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>mark taslov</title>
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						Our #metoo last year came in at <a href="https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/jacindamania-word-famous-in-new-zealand/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">no.2</a>, beaten out of contention by Jacindamania.
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				<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2018 22:09:23 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>linger</title>
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						<p>There are a few nominations for #metoo back on page 1; <br />but of course repeating it’s especially appropriate!<br />(and … yes, you’ve also nominated it without the hashtag, <a href="https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380884#post380884" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">near the top of page 3</a>.)</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:46:47 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>WaterDragon</title>
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						<p>Could have sworn I did this before <br />#metoo (to show we're not just windowdressing/worddressing here)</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2018 21:27:04 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>mark taslov</title>
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						<p><q>I don’t have a clue what’s going on</q></p><p>If interested here are a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/29/im-credited-with-having-coined-the-acronym-terf-heres-how-it-happened" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">couple</a> of <a href="https://www.transadvocate.com/terf-what-it-means-and-where-it-came-from_n_13066.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">backgrounders</a>. 2018 has been wild(!!) on that account locally – a year when the types of ‘allies’ who’d previously shown performative support while largely neglecting to advocate for trans people’s material needs graduated to performatively…</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2018 18:18:48 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Adrian Humm</title>
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						<p>Oh yeah, and </p><p>Woke</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2018 17:34:07 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Adrian Humm</title>
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						<p>TERF<br />2018 has been the year that my poor little ”right on!” brain has become so confused. I feel like I don’t have a clue what’s going on any more and this word sums up my “Wha’...??”</p><p>1080<br />More confusion. My mates are DoC workers doing their best to improve…</p>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2018 17:33:24 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Rob Stowell</title>
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						Probably hung over from last year but  the "witch hunt" or "WITCH HUNT!!!" is still on.
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				<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2018 16:31:50 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Simon Bennett</title>
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						Woke
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				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 20:19:28 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Carol Stewart</title>
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						<p>Hana Koko, our <a href="https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/an-open-letter-awhi-to-our-hana-koko-our-maori-santa" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Māori Santa</a>. <br />A non gender specific Māori Santa would be even better, but hey, baby steps.</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 12:33:22 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Hilary Stace</title>
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						Yes, kind or kindness. It has even been mentioned a lot in Parliamentary question time this year. Let's have an aspirational WOTY.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 12:01:03 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>John Trenwith</title>
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						<p>I'd also like to nominate "embarrassing". </p><p>Initially because of <a href="https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/10/simon-bridges-expresses-regret-over-embarrassing-remark-about-jami-lee-ross.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this</a>, then <a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=12144195" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this</a>, lots of <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/shameful-treasonous-disgrace-lawmakers-pundits-react-trump-s-joint-news-n891736" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this type of thing</a> including <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/11/smocking-gun-trumps-latest-typo-prompts-derision-and-delight" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this just lately</a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-hearing-congress-moments-whatsapp-twitter-a8299511.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this from Zuckerberg</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/world/europe/brexit-theresa-may.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this from Brexit</a>, <a href="https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/08/judith-collins-defends-her-fake-news-tweet-to-jacinda-ardern.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this from an MP</a>, <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stephen-curry-denies-men-on-the-moon_us_5c10eddde4b084b082fe568f" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this from a grown man</a>...</p>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 09:11:23 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>EE</title>
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						Throwing shade
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				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 07:18:43 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Glenn Pearce</title>
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						Transparent
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				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 06:44:15 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Trevor Nicholls</title>
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						Individual-1
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				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:53:53 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>linger</title>
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						<p>Ooh, that suggests another simple contender summing up several threads over the year:<br /><strong>burn</strong><br />denoting, e.g.: <br />(i) gaslighting as standard political discourse<br />(ii) the acrid smoke indicating a leadership crisis in National (emanating from burning Bridges)<br />(iii) growing consensus that global warming must stop now (“nuclear moment”)<br />(iv) wildfires as…</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:51:30 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Peter Martin</title>
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						<p>Gaslight.</p><p>Burn baby, burn.</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:28:25 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>WaterDragon</title>
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						me too
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 15:14:07 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Sacha</title>
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						<p><q>‘smocking’</q></p><p>A cunning appeal to the midwestern conservative base. Home on the prairie and all that.</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:45:23 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>mark taslov</title>
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						<p><q>Perhaps he would consider ‘smoking’ to be false spelling</q></p><p>I've no idea &ndash; it wasn't intended as a personal attack, part of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump-typos-spelling-tweets-unpresidented-2017-4?r=UK&amp;IR=T#/#unpresidented-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a wider trend</a>.</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:35:44 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Geoff Lealand</title>
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						I like ‘kindness’ too, as an antidote to prevailing horrors.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:04:02 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Geoff Lealand</title>
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						Mark; you are rather labouring the point.  I nominated ‘smocking’ because it occured twice in his tweet, and both times in upper case.  Difficult to attribute to anything other than Trump’s carelessness in communications and further demonstration of his ingrained stupidity.  Perhaps he would  consider ‘smoking’ to be false spelling.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:02:08 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>simon g</title>
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						<p><q>thoughts and prayers</q></p><p>An early favourite, I think. </p><p>Have we had <strong>Backstop</strong> yet?</p><p>(Also, I vote against people's names being included, unless they've been turned into words, like <em>Jacindamania</em>).</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:57:04 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Hadyn</title>
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						Plasticban or Plasticfree
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:48:54 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Nicole Murray</title>
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						<p>Kindness<br />It's how we're distinguishing ourselves from the trash-fire of the rest of the world</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:45:19 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>william blake</title>
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						<p>Vicarious trauma</p><p>Recreational grief.</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 12:45:02 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Jeff Howell</title>
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						No collusion.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 10:49:50 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>mark taslov</title>
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						<p><q>cis</q></p><p>I may be wrong about this, but I think it may have something to do with the Trump administration’s attempts to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/23/donald-trump-transgender-military-ban-white-house-memo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ban transgender people</a> from serving in the US military, the Trump administration’s intention to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/21/trump-administration-define-transgender-out-of-existence-new-york-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">define trans people out of existence</a> by employing [[genetic testing to strip federal recognition…</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 10:07:22 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Hilary Stace</title>
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						<p>This is the year that several 'new' words have become commonly used, often in a negative way eg cis, TERF, woke, social justice warriors, virtue signalling.</p><p>But I prefer the positive. I like that suggestion above for Neve. A new word to the NZ lexicon which means new life and…</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:10:32 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Hilary Stace</title>
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						thoughts and prayers
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:00:48 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Rachel Prosser</title>
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						Agreed!   This has been a year when more and more Māori words and phrases became much more commonly used
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				<title>mark taslov</title>
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						<p><q>‘smocking’</q></p><p>The furor over that usage by liberals indicates to me how much of a malignant influence Trump has been both on the right and the left. He came to office <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/09/meryl-streep-was-right-donald-trump-did-mock-a-disabled-reporter/?utm_term=.caa64246567a" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">mocking disabled people</a>, two years later he has the anglosphere <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/jk-rowling-response-to-trump-smocking-gun-typo-2018-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">deriding his literacy issues</a> – which was always on…</p>
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				<title>Stamper Stamp</title>
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						BREXIT
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:32:39 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>linger</title>
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						Though, as you note, that's part of a more general trend, which argues against singling <em>mahi</em> out. I've been on sabbatical in NZ this year after 20 years away, and have been feeling a bit Rip van Winklish to see the te reo loanwords I didn't know that have become…
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:30:09 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Geoff Lealand</title>
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						As the year staggers to an end, it has to be ‘smocking’
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:19:07 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Andre</title>
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						<p>Mahi<br />I think this was the year that the Maori word for work attained mainstream usage, along with a few others. You'll now hear mahi uttered on prime time news, often still followed by a translation to English, just in case.</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:48:51 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Trevor Nicholls</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380843#post380843</link>
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						<p>bluewave<br />First Child<br />fiasco</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:19:44 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>John Trenwith</title>
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						<p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/deletefacebook" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#deletefacebook</a><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodl" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">HODL</a></p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 16:11:25 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>simon g</title>
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						<p><strong>Leak</strong></p><p>Featured in the media all year, but especially in the second half. Not a new word of course, but for sheer prominence, must be a contender.</p><p><strong>Tape</strong></p><p>Nominated in the sub-category of "Misused/Outdated Word of the Year". Various recordings have been in the news, none of which are on…</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 13:43:17 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Andrew C</title>
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						Robert Mueller
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 13:24:06 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Rob S</title>
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						<p>Trump.<br />I'm so over it but he's ubiquitous.</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:58:56 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>kiwifarang</title>
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						Demonstration &ndash; as in the French manifestation
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:50:24 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>kiwifarang</title>
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						<p>STRIKE!</p><p>And if that doesn't work STRIKE AGAIN!</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:46:29 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Hugh Wilson</title>
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						Ireland
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:28:17 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>mark taslov</title>
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						<p>and because it's coming from all quarters lately:</p><p>transmisogyny</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:02:12 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>mr pharmacist</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380819#post380819</link>
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						<strong>Loose leaf.</strong>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:01:56 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>mark taslov</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380818#post380818</link>
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						<p>incel </p><p>centrist</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:50:04 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Joshua Arbury</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380813#post380813</link>
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						<p>What about "Coalition"?</p><p>For two reasons:</p><p>1) The first true MMP coalition government has held up better than most people expected.</p><p>2) NZ First's obsession with calling is a coalition government, instead of a "Labour led" government.</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:24:32 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Andy Williams</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380812#post380812</link>
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						<p><strong>Bridgesticulation</strong></p><p>feeble pointing the finger across the chasm that separates privileged butthurt from reality</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:24:19 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Luke Williamson</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380811#post380811</link>
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						<p>Woke<br />TERF</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:18:43 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380810#post380810</link>
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						<p>How about 'Ross Asset Management'<br />or am I mixing my scandals and years...?</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:07:24 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Sacha</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380809#post380809</link>
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						<strong>Fortnite</strong>.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:05:05 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380807#post380807</link>
				<guid>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380807#post380807</guid>
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						<p>For word (or phrase) of the year I nominate:<br /><strong>'Virtue signalling'</strong> &ndash; strongly used by the inadequate to deflect self-judgement.</p><p>Plus a special mention to the punctuation mark of the year : <strong>!</strong><br />aka the humble exclamation mark, the screamer, a slammer if you like &ndash; once of a solitary…</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:03:47 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Sacha</title>
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						<p><strong>Grift</strong>. <br />Because Donald and friends.</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:02:56 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>JLM</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380805#post380805</link>
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						Wicked. In all its senses
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:02:30 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Andre</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380804#post380804</link>
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						Soymon Bridges
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:51:26 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Brent Jackson</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380803#post380803</link>
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						Reeferendum &ndash; such a great pun
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:49:44 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Richard Derham</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380802#post380802</link>
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						Lime
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:49:10 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Brent Jackson</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380801#post380801</link>
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						metoo
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:41:46 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Andre</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380800#post380800</link>
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						E scooter
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:35:53 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>KathrynB</title>
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						<p>1.<br />#metoonz<br />These are the NZ stories<br />2. Freezepeach<br />We heard a lot from right-wingers claiming free speech for  racists, misogynists, and nazis this year and ,sadly, I expect a lot more next year.</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:35:51 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Rowan Crawford</title>
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						Birds Aren't Real — because this is the year that Poe's Law has taken a hell of a beating.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:28:42 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Omni-shambles</title>
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						<p>Omni-shambles. </p><p>Because omni-shambles.</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:27:48 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Thomas Beagle</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380794#post380794</link>
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						<p>Fascism. </p><p>(A depressing thought that fascism might be the word of the year in 2018.)</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:11:47 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Thomas Beagle</title>
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						Collusion. As a US cultural colony I'm sure we've all heard that one too much.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:10:58 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Sandra Bowden</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380792#post380792</link>
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						Canadians go home!
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:02:38 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Tony Kennedy</title>
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						Brexit. (as in total clusterfuck)
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:54:01 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>caycos</title>
				<link>https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-public-address-word-of-the-year-7/?p=380790#post380790</link>
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						<p>Neve.</p><p>Her birth being a pretty defining moment both in NZ and globally..</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:24:54 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>David Zanetti</title>
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						GDPR. Pretty much every corporate has been spooked and scrambling, and it's part of the focus on "our" data being gathered and used that seems to be swirling around this year.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:11:43 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Lindsay Vette</title>
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						<p>Smocking gun</p><p>Grace Millane</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:10:25 +1300</pubDate>
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				<title>Public Address</title>
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						<p>Discussion from blog post.</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:10:25 +1300</pubDate>
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