On this Audio Signals Episode, Sean and Marco are joined by a returning guest on ITSPmagazine, Valerie Fridland. Join the conversation and learn some new words with them.

"Which Word Takes Top Prize as Word of the Year?

Politics, the pandemic, and social media inspire a bumper crop of new words.

• Language experts recently voted on the word that most summed up this year’s cultural zeitgeist. • A word arising from the controversial and divisive U.S. political landscape in 2021 took the title. • Pandemic-related and TikTok-inspired terms also reflected our national preoccupations.

The words COVID and pandemic might have still reigned supreme this year, but in the quickly changing world of language use, they are already so last year. This year, words both lighthearted (bussin’, cheugy, yassify) and serious (big, lie, insurrection, omicron) were bandied about in the run-up to the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year (WOTY) vote. For the language experts tasked with whittling down the field for 2021, only words that really caught the year’s zeitgeist rose to the top. So, what words made the cut as new and, most importantly, notable?

And the winner is..."

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Guest Valerie Fridland Linguist, professor, author, public speaker | Mentor at the Mentor Project On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerie-fridland-0b29b5209/ On Twitter | https://twitter.com/FridlandValerie

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Resources What word takes top prize as word of the year? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/language-in-the-wild/202201/which-word-takes-top-prize-word-the-year

Another Podcast with this guest? Sociolinguistics. Connecting Language With Society And The Way It Adapts To Its Changes | The Mentor Project Series On ITSPmagazine | Redefining Society With Valerie Fridland: https://itsprad.io/redefining-society-703

The Mentor Project: https://mentorproject.org/

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