Merriam-Webster’s dictionary estimates there are about 1m words in the English language, but that is still not quite enough words for gen-Z, whose vocabulary dominates the Guardian’s breakthrough words of 2024.
To be on the list a word or term needs to have appeared on the Guardian’s pages for the first time or shot up in popularity compared with its frequency in previous years.
It is safe to say that 2024 was particularly absurd: a sign, perhaps, that something had gone sideways was when “rawdogging” (original meaning: having sex without a condom) took to the skies. The
— Read on www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/04/rawdogging-brat-looksmaxxing-guardian-breakthrough-words-2024
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