Cambridge dictionary word of the year 2022

The Cambridge dictionary revealed its word of the year for 2022 saying that the choice is influenced by the famous game Wordle. The Cambridge dictionary chose "homer" as the word of the year. The word ''homer'' was searched for nearly 75,000 times during the first week of May 2022 owing to it being an answer in Wordle. Cambridge Dictionary: Cambridge Dictionary revealed its word of the year for 2022.(Representational) Read more: For the game, the word did not refer to the Greek poet and author Homer but was a reference to an informal American English word for a 'home run' in baseball. Owing to the word, many people had said that they lost their winning streak in the game as they were unfamiliar with the usage of the word and rushed to search it, making it the Cambridge dictionary's highest searched word. ''When homer was the answer for May 5, speakers of American English immediately recognized it as an informal word for a home run in baseball. However, many players outside the US had not heard this word before. Huge numbers of players expressed their frustration and annoyance on social media, but many also turned to the Cambridge Dictionary to find out more,'' the dictionary said in its blog explaining the choice of the word. The word “represented not only the enjoyment that so many of our users have found in being playful with language but also the challenges of learning English in an increasingly connected world,” it said. Read more: Queen Elizabeth II's husband wanted t...

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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! "The dictionary team felt that choosing homer as the Word of the Year 2022 represented not only the enjoyment that so many of our users have found in being playful with language, but also the challenges of learning English in an increasingly connected world," reads a statement on their blog. 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".

Cambridge Dictionary has declared “homer” as its word of the year 2022. Searches for “homer” saw a significant spike on May 5, 2022, when it was the answer on the popular online word game Wordle. According to a Cambridge Dictionary press release, the word was searched for nearly 75,000 times during the first week of May. Homer is 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. Nearly 95% of the searches for homer came from outside North America – unsurprising, given baseball’s popularity in the United States and Canada. Meanwhile, Wordle players who could not guess the American slang used words like “outraged” and “furious” to complain on social media about the choice of homer. The Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year 2022 is... Head to our website to find out: https://t.co/yENHhLAuEu #CambridgeWOTY #WordOfTheYear2022 pic.twitter.com/QdZyqp5ZGa — Cambridge Dictionary (@CambridgeWords) November 17, 2022 Cambridge Dictionary revealed that in a typical year, spikes in searches for a particular word are usually related to current affairs. By contrast, in 2022 – the year that Wordle became a global phenomenon – spikes in word searches were largely related to the game. “Searches for Wordle’s five-letter words on the Cambridge Dictionary website squeezed out other high-interest words that reflected current affairs,” the dictionary said, dubbing it...