Posted on 11/19/2022 8:57:05 AM PST by Saije
With 2022 coming to an end, the Cambridge Dictionary team has announced their Word of the Year for 2022. And it is 'homer', which is described as "short for home run : a point scored in baseball when you hit the ball, usually out of the playing field, and are able to run around all the bases at one time to the starting base," as per Cambridge Dictionary. Homer was the top searched word on Cambridge Dictionary in 2022. "It was looked up more than 79,000 times this year, and an amazing 65,401 of those views happened on May 5," reads a statement on their official blog. The reason: When homer was the answer for May 5's contest on Wordle, a famous online word game, many Americans instanstly guessed the word. However, many Wordle players outside of the US couldn't guess the word right and so they searched up the word online, including Cambridge Dictionary!
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Other five-letter words that were Wordle answers and also searched many times in 2022 were humor (the American English spelling of humour), caulk, tacit, and bayou. This sudden increase in people looking up a word due to Wordle is often called the "Wordle Effect".
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
I play wordle every morning while I am having my coffee. It’s fun. Then my daughter and son in law share their results and it’s a way to connect to connect us in the morning. My word for the decade is “QUISLING” As in Mitt Romney is the ultimate QUISLING. Perfect word.
Usually those first strikers have played on another computer...
D’oh!
Wow!I don’t know anyone who has ever gotten it on the 1st try.
I play daily against one of my sisters and 2 of my sons. It’s a nice brain warm-up to start the day.
LOL, still trying to convince everyone you’re pro-Trump by bashing Romney? Sure, Hildy, give it a rest. Your endorsement of “quisling” Matt Salmon tells everyone here what you really believe.
What a cute story about Wordle, owned by the NY Slimes. Is that the same son-in-law you forced our county to feed at the gubmit trough even though he was wildly unqualified? 🤔
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