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How Do Words Make It Onto Those Worst-Word-of-the-Year Lists?

WORDS Posted: January 17, 2014 7:30 am

“People rather like [those] end-of-the-year … columns, it seems. Timothy Egan chipped in “Words for the Dumpster” in the New York Times on December 28th. There are 1,123 comments, nearly all nominating the commenter’s own least-favourite words. At the bottom of this present column are the first few hundred of them. … Now we can turn to a bit of analysis of what annoys people.”

WORDS Published: 01.13.14

Read the story in The Economist Published: 01.13.14

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