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<div class="">2015’s word of the year is “autocorrect”</div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The word of the year for 2015 is </span><em style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" class="">autocorrect. </em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">It
may seem strange declaring the word of the year for a year that is only just starting. We’ve just named 2014’s word of the year, after all, and it is </span><a href="http://illinois.edu/blog/view/25/119470?displayType=month&displayMonth=201412" data-mce-href="http://illinois.edu/blog/view/25/119470?displayType=month&displayMonth=201412" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" class=""><em class="">torture</em></a><em style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" class="">, </em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">because
2014 had plenty of that</span><em style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" class="">. </em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">But
even though we tend to look back at the end of the year to the events that shaped it—the top ten news stories of the year, the films most annoying to North Korea, the best countries that have been invaded, the most significant airbag failures, the grammar
rule most honored in the breach—at the end of the year we also start making predictions about the year to come: will politicians continue cozying up to white supremacists or will they be too busy smoking Cuban cigars? Will film makers see that featuring dictators
in low brow comedies may put studio mainframes at risk, but it’s great for box office? Will dictators release their own annoying films depicting unpleasant things that might happen to Hollywood directors? Plus, </span><em style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" class="">autocorrect </em><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">represents
a highly-refined, first-world kind of torture, and considering what 2014 was like, some correction seems in order.</span> </div>
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<div class="">Read the full post on the Web of Language: <a href="http://bit.ly/1xvsTHR" class="">http://bit.ly/1xvsTHR</a><br class="">
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