Word of the Week - Archive

Each week during UK term-time we add a new Word of the Week to this section. Experienced lexicographers draw on huge computer resources of current usage, normally accessible only to university departments and dictionary publishers, and provide a language activity for interesting follow-up work.

Previous Words of the Week

• Acceptable
• Affect
• Actually
• Anime
• Apostrophe
• Bling-bling
• Blogging
• Brave New World
• Burger
• Caused
• Cargoes
• Chocoholic
• Chuddies
• Cooperate
• Craic / Crack
• Criteria
• Cyberspace
• Definitely
• Designer
• Different
• Dot-com
• Electrosmog
• Er, Um
• Euro
• Explosion
• Fish 'n' chips
• Floccinaucinihilipilification
• Gender
• Goss
• Gonna
• Grist
• Home Zone
• Hoi Polloi
• Horrible
• Infinitives
• Is is
• Jungle
• Kind
• Large
• Lite
• Load
• Massive
• Millennium
• Minging
• Mosh
• Myself
• Nickname
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Odyssey
• Oodles
• Pizza
• Plastic
• Quite
• Rageful
• Red
• Re-engineering
• Reign
• Scooby
• Skilful
• Spoofing
• Stoked
• Surprise
• The New
• Tomato
• Transitioning
• Uber
• Verbal
• Virtual
• Way
• Whole
• Wonderland
• Zine

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