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   Mignon Fogarty (grammargirl@zirk.us)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jan-2023 01:05:18 JST Mignon Fogarty

   • Ben Zimmer

   The American Dialect Society has chosen "-ussy" as the 2022 word of the year.

   Chair @bgzimmer says, "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.”

   https://www.americandialect.org/2022-word-of-the-year-is-ussy

   #woty #ussy #linguistics

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     • Ben Zimmer

     @grammargirl@zirk.us @bgzimmer@mastodon.social dialussy societussy looking really sussy :crewmatedead: