WotY

See also: WOTY

English

Alternative forms

Noun

WotY (plural WotYs)

  1. Initialism of word of the year.
    • 2005 January 16, Martin Ambuhl, “flip-flopper at the ADS”, in alt.usage.english‎[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 December 2025:
      Nothing in your original post (pasted below) says that the WotY is the "English" Word of the Year. To the contrary, it suggests that it is what the American Dialect Society considers WotY.
    • 2006 December 10, Matthew Wayne Selznick, “[podcasters] Merriam-Webster's WotY Not Podcast -- But Still A Great Choice!”, in Podcasters List‎[2] (Google Groups), archived from the original on 5 December 2025
    • 2012 November 18, Lynne Murphy, “Nominate WotYs & Untranslatables Month II”, in separated by a common language‎[3], archived from the original on 22 November 2012:
      Please nominate your favo(u)rites and give arguments for their WotY-worthiness in the comments to this post. It might be helpful to see my reasoning on why past words were WotY worthy and other nominations weren't.
    • 2016 October 14, Irina Rets, “Teaching Neologisms in English as a Foreign Language Classroom”, in Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences‎[4], volume 232 (International Conference on Teaching and Learning English as an Additional Language, GlobELT 2016, 14–17 April 2016, Antalya, Turkey), Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 January 2022, page 815:
      The fact that neologisms are often chosen as the ‘words of the year’ (WotY) also adds to the advantages of teaching these lexical units to students. WotY is a set of assessments as to the word or expression which reflects the most important concept in the public sphere during a specific year.
    • 2019 January 7, Peter T. Daniels, “yeet”, in alt.usage.english‎[5] (Usenet), archived from the original on 5 December 2025:
      Probably independent from the present use -- it wasn't a WotY candidate in 2014!
    • 2022 January 13, Paula Sastre de la Dedicación, “Materials”, in The Role of Age and Gender in CMC: The Case of English Borrowings by Spanish Speakers‎[6], Palma: University of the Balearic Islands, HDL 11201/156719, chapter 4 (Method), pages 11–12:
      In the first step, a selection of English neologisms was carried out, based on the word of the year (WotY) identified by the American Dialect Society from 2009 to 2019.
    • 2023 December 10, Elena A. Stepanova, “Authentic: The Word of the Year 2023”, in Changing Societies & Personalities‎[7], volume 7, number 4, Yekaterinburg: Ural Federal University, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 May 2024, page 5:
      Although the tradition to select the Words of the Year (WotY) that have attracted a great deal of interest is fairly recent, it has already become quite popular.
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