SoNotNic 🐍🐉🐈Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2023 is **authentic** which saw a substantial increase in lookups driven by conversations about AI, celebrity culture, identity, and social media. Other contenders were rizz, deepfake, coronation, EGOT, X, implode, doppelgänger, covenant, indict, elemental, kibbutz, and deadname.
Oxford's Word of the Year for 2023 is **rizz**. “Use of the word … increased dramatically … with a peak in June 2023, when actor Tom Holland was asked … about his ‘rizz’, to which he answered, ‘I have no rizz whatsoever, I have limited rizz.’”
Other contenders were prompt, situationship, Swiftie, beige flag, de-influencing, heat dome, and parasocial.
Jill 🛸@SoNotNic how did Taemin impact the English language so much in just a month?
