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Squeezed middle, hacktivism, Occupy, or facepalm: what makes a Word of the Year?
Every year, the dictionaries teams at Oxford University Press in the UK and the US put their heads together and come up with a Word (or Phrase) of the Year. And this year has been no different, although for the first time ever, the UK and US dictionaries teams have agreed on a global Word [...]
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