The Words of the Year: Rizz, Hallucinate, Artificial Intelligence, and Authentic

Since the year 1972, several organizations have assigned “words of the year” or WOTY to define what is considered the most important word of the year, basically reflecting the theme or expression that best describes the year that was. It can be a cultural phenomenon, a controversy, an influential concept, or a popular thought. This WOTY is voted upon by linguists and lexicographers and the bodies that designate these include the American Dialect Society, Cambridge University for the Cambridge Dictionary, Collins English Dictionary, Dictionary.com, Macquarie Dictionary, Merriam Webster, and Oxford University Press for the Oxford Dictionary, among others.