[Ads-l] WOTY 2017 nominations

[Herb Stahlke]

Synonym for civil service.

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Word(s) I despise "deep state"
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> These are all based on words people have been talking about on Twitter the
> past year, from 120,412 tweets. Most of last year's were related to the US
> presidential election (bigly, braggadocious and bragadocious, shenanigans,
> malarkey, headass), and many of this year's also relate to the president.
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> * broflake
> * [the] caucacity
> * cockwomble
> * covfefe
> * dotard
> * douchecanoe
> * dracarys
> * shitgibbon
> * shooketh
> * twatwaffle
> * woke
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> These are all sourced from analysis of three Twitter bots that have been
> collecting words from Twitter since 2013. They've looked for certain
> sentences and extracted the X.
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> * @lovihatibot -- "I love/hate the word X"
> * @nixibot -- "X is not/isn't/ain't a word"
> * @favibot -- "X is my new favorite/favourite/fave word"
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> More info:
> http://laivakoira.typepad.com/blog/2017/12/twitter-woty-2017.html
> Words of the year from Twitter, 2017<http://laivakoira.
> typepad.com/blog/2017/12/twitter-woty-2017.html>
> laivakoira.typepad.com
> In 2017, people on Twitter talked about the words broflake, caucacity,
> cockwomble, covfefe, dotard, douchecanoe, dracarys, shitgibbon, shooketh,
> twatwaffle, and woke.
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> http://laivakoira.typepad.com/blog/words/
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