Oxford University Press: Word of the year – rizz

Oxford University Press, a publishing company, used social conversation to drive traditional media coverage and explain the definitions of new slang terms to older generations.

Brief

There is literally nothing more triggering to your GB News watching, Reform UK voting, gammon-eating, claret-drinking. gammony gammonface, than someone misusing our BELOVED QUEEN'S ENGLISH.

The thing is, ever since the perfidious French invaded in 1066 and shot the king in the eye with an arrow, people have been messing with our mother tongue. You might think that being a relatively small island we'd be less open to assimilating other cultures and languages. But the very contrary is true - it's why English has vastly more words than any other language in the world. And while much of our...

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