Word of the Year time of year is afoot and it ’s call on out to be a disconsolate and downcast one . Oxford Dictionaries chosepost - truth . Dictionary.com pickedxenophobia . Merriam - Webster , which select base on number of word lookups , seems on track to crownfascism .
The fraught political landscape painting give gibbousness to these words is n’t confined to any one country . Postfaktisch(“post - Sojourner Truth ” ) won for Word of the Year inGermany . Austria ’s Word of the Year refers to an tiring , extend , contend presidential election and , at52 missive long , is also a slog to really say : Bundespraesidentenstichwahlwiederholungsverschiebung(“postponement of the repetition overspill of the presidential election ” ) .
NowAustraliahas chosendemocracy sausageas its Word of the Year , and while it also comes from the public of politics , it ’s from the more cheerful side . Democracy sausage is not some metaphor for all the gross moment and ends that are ground up and stuffed into the process of democracy , but an actual sausage , grill and help on a piece of bread or a nice roll at polling stations on Election Day . The sausages are sold as fundraiser for the schools , community centers , and churches where voting takes topographic point .
majority rule blimp has been a characteristic of Election Day in Australia since 2012 , but rose to tidings of the twelvemonth status this year due to a much publicized gaffe by a politician who awkwardly set about to eat his sausage from the middle instead of one of the ends . It was also a big subject of discussion because of the growing popularity of cyberspace instrument formapping blimp cubicle , enabling people to design their balloting around their feeding .
Drinking also made an show on the shortlist of Australian word of the year candidates withshoey , a term for champagne or other gay libationdrunk out of a shoein festivity of a sport win . It pairs well with democracy blimp .
