"Slop"
Language Log 2025-12-13
Summary:
It's WOTY season, and The Economist's choice for 2025 is slop: PICKING A WORD of the year is not easy. In the past the American Dialect Society has gone with “tender-age shelters” (2018) and “-ussy” (2022). The Oxford English Dictionary (oed) has caused conniptions by opting for things like “youthquake” (2017) and “goblin mode” (2022). If […]