Young Writers Society

Happy New Year! 🥳

The countdown begins for Word of the Year 2022! - https://logwork.com/countdown-xi18
(*Ends on: 12:00 p.m. GMT+8 / 12:00 a.m. GMT-4, January 2, 2023)

Four words are tying for 1st place and three words are tying for second place! If there are still ties for Gold and Silver when the countdown ends, we're doing tiebreaker polls as necessary until we have our final winners! 🥇🥈

Cast your votes!

🏆 It's the final lap for Word of the Year 2022! 🏆
Time for the tiebreakers!

GOLD Tiebreaker Poll
SILVER Tiebreaker Poll
BRONZE Tiebreaker Poll

Vote!
*Everyone, including those who participated in the first poll, gets to vote for 1 word per poll.
*I am not allowed to vote. :3

Here are the results of the first poll!

Spoiler! :

- 4 votes -
nomenclature
epoch

- 3 votes -
disputatious
palimpsest

- 2 votes -
galumph
harrumph
logophile
kinesthesia

- 1 vote -
wont
pluripotentiality
evensong
convocation
usurious
opprobrious
sidle
pecuniary
crepuscular
unthoughtful
uncomprehending
invertebrate
unpermitted
lachrymose
varlot
belabor
sacrosanct

We need more votes! >:3 I promise that if I do this again, I'll just do one poll and allow multiple words to tie xD so that I'm not spamming about this too much. But in this case, I'd already started the tiebreaker polls so I'm committed. 😎 Let's finish this.

GOLD Tiebreaker Poll
SILVER Tiebreaker Poll
BRONZE Tiebreaker Poll

*People who voted in the first poll can vote again on each tiebreaker poll.

I'm ending this on the 7th whatever the results are and will declare the winners. 🏆🏆🏆



Happy 1st Week of 2023!

You haven't voted, have you? :3

It's the actual FINAL DAY (I swear!) for 🏆 Word of the Year 2022 🏆!
https://www.tickcounter.com/countdown/3 ... e-day-2022
*We're ending this at 12:00 p.m. GMT+8/12:00 a.m. GMT-4 on January 8, 2023, regardless of ties. 👀

Cast your votes here!
GOLD 1st Place Poll
SILVER 2nd Place Poll
BRONZE 3rd Place Poll

It's time

to declare

the final results of

🏆 Word of the Year 2022 🏆!

Firstly, thank you everyone for voting in the comprehensive first poll (14 votes) and now the tiebreaker polls (6-7 votes)! 🙌 💙 I hope that you had fun and I apologize if the poll sharing had gotten too spammy. 😅

Here's to another year of learning (and hopefully remembering) more words! Happy 2023!

Am I doing this again? Who knows? lol!

NOW:

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For the BRONZE medal in 3rd place 🥉,
the competing words were:

'galumph' • 'harrumph' • 'logophile' • 'kinesthesia'
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/galumph
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harrumph
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/logophile
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kinesthesia

Initially a tie between 'galumph' and 'harrumph',
then both overtaken by 'kinesthesia',
and then finally-!

The BRONZE Word of the Year 2022 IS...

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🥉 'GALUMPH' 🥉
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/galumph

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galumph - 50% (3 votes)
kinesthesia - 33.33% (2 votes)
harrumph - 16.67% (1 votes)
logophile - 0% (0 votes)

(*BRONZE Results - https://strawpoll.com/polls/QrgeVBJDRZp/results)

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For the SILVER medal in 2nd place 🥈,
the competing words were:

'disputatious' • 'palimpsest'
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disputatious
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palimpsest

This was very consistently...

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A TIE!

🥈 'DISPUTATIOUS' and 'PALIMPSEST' 🥈
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disputatious
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palimpsest

are your SILVER Words of the Year 2022!

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disputatious - 50% (3 votes)
palimpsest - 50% (3 votes)

(*SILVER Results - https://strawpoll.com/polls/YVyP2Dz79gN/results)

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And finally, for the GOLD medal in 1st place 🥇,
your competing words were:

'nomenclature' • 'epoch'
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nomenclature
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epoch

Honestly I didn't expect this word to be a strong contender among all the words this year, BUT -

Winning with 5 votes against 2,
your GOLD Word of the Year 2022 IS...

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🥇 'NOMENCLATURE' 🥇
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nomenclature

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nomenclature - 71.43% (5 votes)
epoch - 28.57% (2 votes)

(*GOLD Results - https://strawpoll.com/polls/w4nWDJlwdgA/results)



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Thank you all for participating! And thank you to all ~45 of the Words of the Year 2022! This has been pretty fun~ (I also had never used so many exclamation points in my life until I made these WOTY2022 posts. lol)

Honorable mentions to 'preponderance' (2022 word after the Dec. 27 cutoff) and 'graffito' (2022 word that I missed the post of and forgot about <.<, oops) (and also the few other words from my 2022 YWS post history I may have also missed and forgotten about)~ 😅



See you all again next whenever! lol 🙋‍♂️

Hi! I can't create a new thread for some reason so I'm reusing this one for

🏆 WORD OF THE YEAR 2023! 🏆

(Sadly can't even edit the first post in this thread to lead people down here to the newest post. D:)

VOTE HERE: https://strawpoll.com/Q0ZpRaqaxnM

Same context as before: I made a bunch of posts on my wall about interesting words that I encountered, learned, or got reminded of throughout the year of 2023~

Rules:
1. You can vote up to three words!
2. You can use one of your votes for 'Other' to add your own Word of the Year!
3. The poll is currently set to end on the 8th at midnight (GMT+8). No tiebreakers this time!
4. I can't vote.

TIEBREAKER for Word of the Year 2023 here!

https://strawpoll.com/BJnX8AbQYnv



It's between 'marginalia', 'disapprobation', and 'verisimilitude/verisimilitudinous', with 2 votes each.

Poll ends on the 12th at midnight.

(I probably should have given you guys more than 3 votes to give 'cause a lot of the other words got 1 vote each, and the rest with zero; there are too many words for only 3 votes. 😅)

- Word of the Year 2023 First Poll Results! -

https://strawpoll.com/Q0ZpRaqaxnM/results

Here are your 1-vote words:
contranym
eponymous
sesquipedalian
habituation
importune
ennui
concatenate
eventuality
pareidolia
ambulatory
fugue
contemporaneous
convalesce

The Tiebreaker poll is ended and that means...

It's time

to

declare

the final results

of

🏆 WORD OF THE YEAR 2023 🏆 !



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Without further ado:

In 3rd place!

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🥉 DISAPPROBATION 🥉
https://www.merriam-webster.com/diction ... pprobation

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(noun)
: "the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : CONDEMNATION"

Examples:

"
Consumers express their opinions with their wallets, and disapprobation on social media.
"
—Benjamin Voyer, Forbes, 31 Mar. 2023

"
His felony conviction drew much of the disapprobation of anti-D’Souza readers, several of whom pointed out the current firestorm between the Scott administration and courts that have found Florida’s clemency process is confusing and arbitrary.
"
—Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 May 2018

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In 2nd place!

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🥈 MARGINALIA 🥈
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marginalia

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(plural noun)
1: marginal notes or embellishments (as in a book)
2: nonessential items

Examples:

"
This has long been where the societal marginalia are contained, not just refugees but other minority groups.
"
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023

"
Hawthorne’s juvenile marginalia are similarly revealing, as seen in his childhood Latin textbook.
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—Ted Scheinman, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2023

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Which means!

In 1st place is!

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🥇 VERISIMILITUDE / VERISIMILITUDINOUS 🥇
https://www.merriam-webster.com/diction ... similitude

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(noun)
1: the quality or state of being verisimilar*
2: something verisimilar*

Examples:

"
Yet an errant verisimilitude—film’s prerogative—doesn’t quite address what’s at issue.
"
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023

"
Using an old, large-format camera, long exposure times and elaborately tuned lighting, Sugimoto enhanced both the artifice and the verisimilitude of the institution’s taxidermy wildlife tableaus behind glass.
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—Emily Labarge, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023

*RE: 'verisimilar' and 'verisimilitudinous'(?)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verisimilar

(adjective)
1: having the appearance of truth : PROBABLE
2: depicting realism (as in art or literature)

Example:

"
Annie’s work thus far has been meticulously verisimilar, bordering on minimalist, with depopulated nurseries and studios built of balsa wood.
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—Katherine Fusco, The Atlantic, 11 July 2018

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*Results Link: https://strawpoll.com/BJnX8AbQYnv/results

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Thank you all for participating!

And thank you to all ~136 Words of the Year 2023! (Yikes, that was A HUGE LOT more than 2022. lol) See you next year...? 👀💧

Happy 2024! 🥳