Dec 04 2022
A year ago, the lexicographic grandees at Oxford Languages dutifully stuck out their arms and chose “vax” as the 2021 Word of the Year.
But this year, the venerable publisher behind the Oxford English Dictionary has — like the rest of us, apparently — gone full goblin mode.
“Goblin mode” — a slang term referring to “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations” — has been named Oxford’s 2022 Word of the Year.
Yes, you read that right. Following a landslide online popular vote, an in-joke that surged to prominence thanks to a satirical viral tweet involving an actress, a rapper and a doctored headline has been named 2022’s One Word to Rule Them All.
"Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time."
—Sappho, fragment ...
The Nazi Conspiracy
by Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch
From two bestselling authors, the true story of the plot to kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill.
Ghost Season
by Fatin Abbas
A beautifully orchestrated debut connecting five people caught in the crosshairs of conflict on the Sudanese border.
Wade in the Water
by Nyani Nkrumah
A gripping debut novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class set in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming
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