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Good Lord.  Should have been "camping."

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The American Dialect Society, in its 33rd annual words-of-the-year vote, selected the suffix “-ussy” as the Word of the Year for 2022. More than two hundred attendees took part in the deliberations and voting, joining both in person and virtually, in a hybrid event hosted in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America’s annual meeting in Denver, CO.

Presiding at the Jan. 6 voting session was Ben Zimmer, chair of the ADS New Words Committee and language columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

“The selection of the suffix '-ussy' highlights how creativity in new word formation has been embraced online in venues like TikTok,” Zimmer said. “The playful suffix builds off the word 'pussy' to generate new slang terms. The process has been so productive lately on social media sites and elsewhere that it has been dubbed '-ussification.'”

The full press release, including all winners, candidates, and vote tallies for all candidates, is here:
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