The producer of the ICYMI podcast is a linguist who attended the @americandialect.org WOTY vote. Every time I hear WOTY described for the public, I have to laugh--if only they could be a fly on the wall for the earnest jockeying between grad students and elder linguists
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Rawdogging, Brainrot, and Brat
How linguists picked “rawdogging” and “brainrot” as 2024’s extremely online words of the year.