Oxford Dictionaries announced yesterday that its international Word of the Year for 2017 is... “youthquake”?
If you’re scratching your head, you’re not alone.
“Never bloody heard of it until an hour ago!” one Twitter user wrote.
There were puzzled reaction GIFs.
#youthquake: Oxford Dictionaries' #WordOfTheYear that no one uses. pic.twitter.com/CLWl2zrsc5
— Toni Waterman (@ToniWaterman_) Dec. 15, 2017
And there were many jokes about the 1985 album of the same name by the British dance-pop group Dead or Alive, which is apparently popular in Chile, Vice News noted.
Do you have a better idea? Tell us your choice for word of the year in the comments. We’ll publish a selection of them in the coming days here on this page. The winner will get a year’s supply of #covfefe.
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