There are somewhere between 600,000 (Oxford English Dictionary) and 1,000,000 (Global Language Monitor) words in the English Language.
With that many words to choose from you’d have thought that we’d have a word for everything.
But you’d be DELULU if you did! Every year hundreds of new words come into use.
And you don’t have to travel the world in search of these (a good thing given the current ANTI-TOURISM protests that we’ve seen this year). Often you’ll find different cultural movements or groups with something in common YAPPING in what, to those of us on the outside, must seem like an entirely different language!
Generational groups too, like Gen Z and Gen Alpha, must look upon us outsiders (I’m Gen X) as if we’re from another ERA! While everything to them is all about being BRAT and LOOKSMAXXING so that they stand a better chance of living a ROMANTASY life, to those of us not ‘with it’, we’re left RAWDOGGING just trying to keep up!
To be honest, the whole thing gives me BRAINROT!
I think I need to move to somewhere quiet and away from all this!
Maybe move to Scotland?
Although apparently, according to researchers, the Scots have 421 words that describe snow.
Now that’s a SUPERMAJORITY!
(In case you are wondering what the hell this is about, the capitalised words are all the ones shortlisted for the Collins Dictionary Word of the Year 2024!)
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