{"id":199,"date":"2025-01-04T08:01:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T08:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/rawdogging-brat-and-looksmaxxing-guardians-breakthrough-words-of-2024-language-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T08:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T08:01:23","slug":"rawdogging-brat-and-looksmaxxing-guardians-breakthrough-words-of-2024-language-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/rawdogging-brat-and-looksmaxxing-guardians-breakthrough-words-of-2024-language-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawdogging, brat and looksmaxxing: Guardian\u2019s breakthrough words of 2024 | Language | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Merriam-Webster\u2019s 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\u2019s breakthrough words of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>To be on the list a word or term needs to have appeared on the Guardian\u2019s pages for the first time or shot up in popularity compared with its frequency in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>It is safe to say that 2024 was particularly absurd: a sign, perhaps, that something had gone sideways was when \u201crawdogging\u201d (original meaning: having sex without a condom) took to the skies. The<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2025\/jan\/04\/rawdogging-brat-looksmaxxing-guardian-breakthrough-words-2024\">www.theguardian.com\/science\/2025\/jan\/04\/rawdogging-brat-looksmaxxing-guardian-breakthrough-words-2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merriam-Webster\u2019s 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\u2019s breakthrough words of 2024. To be on the list a word or term needs to have appeared on the Guardian\u2019s pages for the first time or shot up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}