{"id":547,"date":"2014-01-02T04:22:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T03:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=547"},"modified":"2014-01-02T04:22:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T03:22:26","slug":"johnson-and-the-winner-for-2013-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Johnson: And the winner for 2013 is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE year\u2019s end has come. As the hangover from January 1<sup>st<\/sup> recedes, it is time to work off another kind of hangover: a look back at the wonderful, weird and terrible things the English language did in 2013. At the end of the year, various dictionary-publishers, language societies and other assorted word-nerds published their \u201cwords of the year\u201d. With what result?<\/p>\n<p>Different outfits chose their words in different ways. Merriam-Webster, a dictionary-maker, chose the word that saw the biggest spike in online lookups. Unfortunately, that led to the boring triumph of \u201cscience\u201d, which had a 176% jump. Merriam-Webster\u2019s Peter Sokolowski gamely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/info\/2013-word-of-the-year.htm\">tried to explain<\/a> our fascination with the meaning of \u201cscience\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is a word that is connected to broad cultural dichotomies: observation and intuition, evidence and tradition. A wide variety of discussions centered on science this year, from climate change to educational policy. We saw heated debates about &#8216;phony&#8217; science, or whether science held all the answers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All true, but does any of this particularly scream \u201c2013\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>The Oxford Dictionaries, a division of Oxford University Press, nailed the spirit of 2013 a little better by choosing \u201cselfie\u201d. For those who avoided the&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2014\/01\/word-year?fsrc=rss\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>from Prospero http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2014\/01\/word-year?fsrc=rss<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE year\u2019s end has come. As the hangover from January 1st recedes, it is time to work off another kind of hangover: a look back at the wonderful, weird and terrible things the English language did in 2013. At the end of the year, various dictionary-publishers, language societies and other assorted word-nerds published their \u201cwords [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[84],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}