Democratic

Ithink the word of 2012 shoud be quagmire. It is my brothers and my favorite word. It is one of the vocab words that he had to define. I wold enjoy i you consider chosing my favorite word. Thank you for reading this,
Anna Combest

I believe the word of the year should be SwagYOLO. It’s not really a word, but everyone uses it so much that it should be.

I think the word of the year should be articulate, transliteration, Internationalization, or localization.

Someone I know had us look up the word articulate, which means
1. uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
2. capable of speech; not speechless.
3. using language easily and fluently; having facility with words: an articulate speaker.
4. expressed, formulated, or presented with clarity and effectiveness: an articulate thought.
5. made clear, distinct, and precise in relation to other parts: an articulate form; an articulate shape; an articulate area.

Catawampus. Perfect for this year.

the 2012 word of the year is…………………………………………………………….
ONE DIRECTION!!! (;

prestidigitation

Peasant.

Grimy… It’s such an incredible description of the world today…

I don’t really have that much of a big vocabulary, compared to last year’s word, but I think the word for 2012 should be “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” It should be that because there is no other word in my vocabulary to describe this. I don’t know what to say. Hehehe….

What about Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?!?!

Complacency as in, danger in complacency.

Spunky

deficit

I think the word of the year should be pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It is defined as being the lung disease obtained from breathing in silica dust, often found in miners and people standing too close to erupting volcanos. This word is 45 letters, and I think it is one of the best words in the english language.

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Pneamonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis

Joe Bidens word choice during the VP debate, “Malarky.”

atrocious

oblivion

Hello Dictionary.com, I think the word of the year should be Freedom. That is because I am aware of the middle eastern countries that are fighting for their freedom. Freedom is a way to show the struggling nations that we care. Thank you for your time.

Swag

Hyperreality – “an image or simulation, or an aggregate of images and simulations, that either distorts the reality it purports to depict or does not in fact depict anything with a real existence at all, but which nonetheless comes to constitute reality”

There is no better word to describe this past election in the US

“Sticktoitiveness” comes to mind. I like how the word “dogged” is used in the dictionary which has a real connotation of a subtle but prideful boorishness and ignorance, but along with a loyal and tenacious love.

supercalafragilisticexpialidotious

I think the word of the year should be extraordinary.

-Nikki

controversy

It should be TAX

procrastination, because of the fun things we all have done this year instead of doing the other things first, yet we still got them done … remember this is the last time we’ll have a repetitive date. 12/12/12

It should be YOLO or SWAG

The 2012 word of the year should be “end”

UNIMAGINATIVE

Metamorphosis, due to the gradual change in attitudes and society that is occurring around the world.

SUPERCALLIFRAGILISTICEXPIALLIDOCIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! should be the new and wonderful word of the great election, leading edge, awesome, swanky, beast, yolo, apocalypse, gangnam style year of 2012!

demogue….aka Obama!

it should be MOM

Rather than staying strictly with US events, I prefer to adopt a more philosophical stance (from the perspective of Oliver Goldsmith).
So, in honour of the 2012 Olympics (which the United States received the most gold medals in), I believe the word of the year should be

corival

Not exactly a large word, but it captures the spirit nicely, I should think.

I agree with Valentina. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is the word to say when you don’t know what else to say. I think it’s a fitting word for this year.

schism

Dilapidated

i think the word of the year 2012 should be……………

ME!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S ilove one direction

eustress or nonplussed

it should be Calamity

I think the word of the year should be “peace” . And you all know the reason why.

HOBO!!!!!!

Pulchritudinous… I love that word, Favourite word!

the word of the year should be one of them there are too many adjectives to describe things that have happened but when in doubt (and i apoligize for my atrocious grammar) i choose either supermegafoxyawesomehot or do it the dr. seuss way- if you can’t find a word you like make one up

snafu

LOQUACIOUS.
Because everybody talks, everybody talks, everybody talks too much.

differentiation

Gif or gifboom.

With a million jobs lost, at least twice that many people homeless, the extremely bad weather, Spanish becoming America’s new language, and if that wasn’t bad enough, the presidential election stooping to crash commercialism, employing telephone solicitors, blog writers & spam, HELLISH is the best word I can think of. And just think, the Winter Solcitice is still to come!

Hydrogenated

disenchantment

with the results of the arab spring, with the recovery of the worldwide recession, with the republican candidate, with the music (just kidding), with the direction of the world in general (except for the higgs-boson particle).

how about deficit

cattywampus gets my vote – things were very off center and askew in 2012

Wiglomeration

english vinglish [ Name of a Popular Indian Film-2012 } – meaning – Difficulties of Indians in learnig Spoken English ?

Homogenization seems an apt word for this year.

Either that or apocalypse, armaggedon or cataclysm (I don’t believe it’s coming, but still)

I’ve got three words for 2013 – quadrillion dollar dept

The word “Expedient” comes to mind. It was the first word I could think of that seemed appropriate for all things in the year. Especially as we draw closer to the end of the Mayan calendar (while I hardly place any stock in the doom and gloom; the calendar simply ends) it seems the general theme is that some action in an “expedient” manner on all our part would be advisable. Indeed it seems we all have things to be done before the end of the year.

It should be dictionary.

let it be
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Although I hate it, the word of the year should be “YOLO”

HOLLY! i think that the 2012 word should be Holly

#YOLO or #SWAG

Nomenclature
I once impressed a English proffessor from SMU with this word.
Hi Vicki (Dr. Hall).

Whoops.

Or of course my favorite word, Alphanumerical

Professor not proffessor. Bad typist.

rohan
rohan
rohan
rohan
rohan
rohan
rohan
rohan

platitudinous
because its funny sounding, and the article says it was a boring year. so lets spice it up with fun word! that means boring

The word should definitely be “stress” or “stressful.”

Chaos

absurdity

Certainly, I would say “Hippomonstrosesquippedaliophobia”

The fear of long words !

apocalypse ;P

“Oblivious”
When it comes to American people, we are all oblivious.
& When it comes to the media’s biases.

We watch and know what the elite want us to.

zenith

How about “mendacious”? There seemed to be a lot of that in the American 2012 presidential election..

I think the word of the year should be NEPHELIGENOUS

hyperreality

hyperreality

hyperreality

I think the 2012 word of the year should be breakthrough, that all the evil will be break and all the nation will be free, the nation needs freedom, thank for ur time

OLYMPICS

Onion;)

Really?!?

>>>>>>New Word<<<<<>>>>>>

Obamanation

How about ASTALAVISTA!?

“Fast” or “Quickly”, for the year has slipped away from me so very fast.

Divided

SWAG

Orifice. Or Mash.

The word I choose is “end”.
This word is short and has a simple meaning, which means something that is a coming to a conclusion, a close.
When many people think of year 2012, we associate it with the movie “2012″, which predicts that the world will end this year, thus this is how the word “end” is related to the year 2012. However, looking in a new light, there is a saying “Every end is a new beginning”. Year 2012 may be an “end”, but it is also a new beginning for us to start the year 2013 afresh, with less negative thoughts about the world ending.

pudding

Gangnam Style….

Common sense.. Why is it called common when it is so rare.

Decscoreoneitis-

The fear, perceived or imagined, of December21st, 2012.

I think the word of the year should be omnishambles used first in the drama in the political comedy ‘in thick of it’ then used by the labour party to describe the conservative government’s budget.

i think the word of the yaer should be brobdingngian a fancy word for big!!!

sandy

I think the word of the year should be Tillandsia, though epiphyte would work as well.

I don’t understand. First you point out that 2012 was pretty “boring” when it came to words,” and then you say that “luckily” no candidate alleviated this verbal ennui by following in Palin’s footsteps and coining a new word.

The 2012 word of the year should be “47-percenter,” defined as a layabout who expects government assistance.

I believe it should be “overcome”. It’s not a word whose use would necessarily improve anyone’s vocabulary, but this year our world has been through quite a bit, most of which we have in some form or fashion, partially or wholly, “overcome”.

I’m with Christopher; “hyperreality” has an amazing definition, even though I don’t get into politics.

Apocalypse as this year is the final year of the earth

civilized

How about extrapolate ?

What else but ALBATROSS? A year of tribulation for us all, from people suffering from financial and weather related disasters to nasty mud-slinging grown men who are totally clueless.

Binder.

Forgettable.

Pluralism, sums up our culture today.

unchanged or
stagnant

[...] ’2012 WOTY’  Whomever we believe.  –  ‘Tersgiversate’ to under rate the WOTY Flip Flop while on leave. — Repudiate the Differences taken over the top — It’s not that far apart — It’s always Half the Heart –  There’s always choice to Stop. — What is it to Believe — Other than some other Monkey Business of Thought Police to Cop.  — The Peace Dividend of Country over Business Sense allowing Businesses to Thrive. — The Bottom Line of Regulating Over Sight Some Self Serving ‘Frankenstorm’ Hand Jobbing to survive.  –>>L.T.Rhyme [...]

I can’t decide between these three:

Sardanapalian

ventose

praxis

Another word I like just because it’s so much fun to say is:

para-dimethyl-amino-benzaldehyde

It was never a Word of The Day, but it’s great anyway.

Hello dictionary.com. If you ask me the word of the year should be Contraversy.

i think the word of the year should be animosity

Austerity

animosity means illl will or showing strong dislike towards someone or something but i forget what else but yall should just look it up

animosity means : feeling of strong dislike, ill will, or enmity that tends to display itself in action: a deep-seated animosity between two sisters; animosity against one’s neighbor.

with the oh so delightful relief about the recently completed general election, i nominate OBFUSCATION. it encapsulates the entire process

character assassination

Definition: attack someone’s reputation

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Most deffinitly

Omnishambles

double-down

i think the word should be Zahra. Isnt it different??!!!!

conundrum

Inundated – as in:

- I am so thankful that we will no longer be inundated with all the political calls and ads.

- Super storm Sandy inundated the New York / New Jersey coast, causing enormous damage and suffering.

ampersand

Catawampus. It fits with this strange year and all of the ridiculous hype over the elections.

Disasterous

Omnishambles

The word of the year should be Expensive because of how much money was spent during the elections.

SuperPAC

The Word of the Year should most assuredly be sesquipedalian. It is by far my favorite word (as of this month; it changes often. Last month I believe it was pseudonym.) and I would love to see it as Word of the Year. It’s funny, because sesquipedalian is, in fact, a sesquipedalian word!
With utmost sesquipedalianism and respect,
Joshua Matthew Raghalagh Swifteagle

I think the word of the year should be Swag or incentive.

Serendipitous.

chaque unite a son esprit qui lui est attribuer de son action d allez en avant ,le sentiment natoinal eut emousse la pointe amere de ce depart.

Word of the Year!!” Character”

No one is flawless…without fault…a person should be accepted for the content of their ‘character’ and not by the color of their skin. We have much to be taught and learn.

Gangnam Style

The phrase of the year for 2012 should be… Year of Turmoil!!!!!!

apathy or lethargy (as in the alarmingly high number of u.s. residents who are indifferent toward everything outside of their social bubble)

i like the meaning given in the origin: “insensibility to suffering”

survival

Tourettic. It is not exactly a word yet, but high time it was and it is totally 2012 to me.

this is actually a phrase…”This was not intended to be factually accurate”.

majestic

ratchet!!!!!!!!

Word of the year could be “Biden” –a verb meaning to mockingly mug and interrupt excessively without much basis.

Why not consider Satissire……Combination of two words to make a single meaning.. Desire and Satisfy. That is to satisfy one desire.

Gene.

“Romnesia”

I liked September 29th’s word: catholicon, which is what both candidates were trying to be for the country.

llamas

i think electing pres. oba,a is like backing up the titanic and hitting the ice berg a second time

Discombobulated

“Misconscrewed.”

it should be multitude because thats what the world is a multitude of things

I’m thinking it should be duodecimal! Or omelet…

organic.
The most overused word in business these days!

I think that the Iconic word for 2012 is…(wait for it)… ICONIC ! The most thoroughly, completely,and utterly overused word of the year. Watch any Newscast on any Network and you will hear it used at least twice, if not three or more times. This adjective has become devalued and lost most of the weight it once had. Now I call THAT inflation! One would think that the Media Pundits could COIN a few alternative words and thus preserve the worth of something that truly deserves its stature as an Icon!

Anomalous – in reference to climate.

Tip

Gangnam Style!

Necrotic

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious or pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis I like those words.

Chromebook

pandemonium!!!!!!!!!!!

two words… EPIC…& FAIL

if not, then CHUCK NORRIS!!!

Gangnam. I seriously think Gangnam style is the song of the year so it should the word of the year as well.

Yolo

evesdropping dont know why, its just cool

hashtag

Enough said. If you like my idea, let me know at hashtag hashtag. Make sure you help my hashtag trend by hashtaging and following my hashtag. If you have any cool pictures that support hashtag, submit it to hashtag, @#/hashtag#hashtag

I don’t even “tweet” and it’s all I hear anymore.
hashtag-mike

#DOPE

stacker

OLOY; only losers obey yolo… hehehe

Hipopotamonstrosisquipidaliophobia.

Psychosis-a mental disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality.

oops spelled that wrong oh well another good one would be pseudonym.

ok i like so many words I’m sorry everybody but here’s a list:
brain
enthralling
choir
paragraph
magic
miraculous
heart
composition
golden
magnet
measurement
fly
affinity
reflect
float
ok that’s enough…

LOVE

prevarication – in honor of Mitt Romney

I think the word should be impurity.

i think it should either be swag or obama (obviously)

Well the word that was most misused/hyper-used during 2012 was “Epic.”

Other than that I vote with other posters for “Swag.”

I would be honored to see my choice for word of the year chosen, although I feel that my reasoning may be a bit to divisive for your website. My nomination for word of the year is “Liberal”. I nominate this word during an election year because of how tiring it is to hear the word misused constantly. The political bastardization of the word doesn’t match its actual meaning. To be liberal is by definition to be progressive towards reform and change. None of the various implied negative campaign meanings are found in a dictionary but they seem to be a part of the nomenclature of common understanding for the word amongst most of the country. Which is a shame, because the negative label is just a political construct; one that helps to keep our nation divided.

It should be hexaflexagon. It’s a shape that can be made with a strip of paper, that has many sides that are hard to find. I think it describes most people’s personalities: many sides, with some that are hard to find.

Ruff.

EVENTFUL?????????????????????????????????????????

jaboticaba

i think that the word of the year should be…….. RATCHETT!!!! LOL , thats funny right there i dont care who ya are , btw yoouu ratcheett(;

the word is Avengers!!

awesome

it is a run off of two words: catastrophe or postchristian

I think the word should be, embonpoint. It is an intresting word and it’s fun to say.

I think the word of the year should be “liberal.” Anyone else of hearing about “change?” If your going to do it, then do it already!!!!

I think the word shoud be dextroversion

twilight

transit of venus!

I think the word should be embonpoint. It is a very fun word to say and has an intresting definition.

Skrillex

SETH FLI NT, OR ANDY

overshopping

SUPER CALLA FRAJA LISTIC EXPIE ALA DOSHISS

austin mahone

# #1 mahomie

that was supposed to be a smiley face…:[]

= o o =
- L -
______
\|_|_|_|/

maybe this one will work better!!!

once again – malarky or stagnant!

Memorandum.

PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS. REALLY LONG WORD!

kerfuffle or brouhaha because of the election craze and with all the world ending stuff

It should be logistics! hear that word WAY to much! oh and i agree with you Wearescrewed!

Definitely Dwag

the word of the year should be CHEECH (a peach with cheddar cheese) or it should at least be a word….

peebottle its what my brother does

defenisrate

definatly swag

is should be HISTORY

Sandy

bacon. ’nuff said.

MINECRAFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hipster.

OBLITERATED should be the word of the year

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

I think the word for 2012 should be:

pulchritudinous

This is basically another word for beautiful!

2012 was beautiful because

of the warm summer days,
the cool evenings,
the long winter nights
of the rain pounding the Earth every now and then
of the fall trees’ swaging braches as leaves fell off,
and the animals that will enlighten us forever!

Also…

Natural Life

Miranda A.

Take a moment to notice
The beauty of the trees.
Sit and take a look
At the dancing leaves.
Note the little child
Laughing, playing with a toy.
Always so full of energy;
Humongous amounts of joy.
Don’t crush the insects,
Who are 1/1000ths of your weight.
They may creep up your path,
But don’t decide their fate.
Life’s not about avoiding storms.
Instead, dance in the rain.
The Earth is so beautiful;
Why must we cause it’s pain?
Take time off your busy schedule
To glance at the starry night.
Because nature is genius.
So pretty, such a sight!

Source: Natural Life, Beauty of Nature Poem http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/natural-life#ixzz2CEsfxovO
http://www.FamilyFriendPoems.com

I think it should be apocalypse since this is “supposed” to be the year of the apocalypse and it, although seems bad, gives us hope…that good will finally triumph evil. Hope and the apocalypse are what have made 2012 special.

I think I’d have to go with ‘oops’

Jigaboo

I think it should be Slantindicular. Don’t ask me what it means.

Debt……….. Not even funny how much we owe

crazy

We think the word should be
Lemon or sugar the yr was sweet and sour in both ways

based

<3

I think discombobulated is a word that often finds context in today’s society nomatter the amount of carefull planning. and it’s fun to say!

Winning!

SWAG

The word of the day should be EXOTIC because weird things and crazy things have been happening

how about kiwi bird? just saying….. they are critically endangered and stuff(not to mention killer cute) and those reading this that care about the kiwi’s wellbeing check out http://www.savethekiwi.org

One of these two is perfect:
Sesquipedalian:
1. Something long
2. 1.5 times the length of something
3. 1.5 feet
4. Someone who likes long words

Or Prolix:
Very long and tedious

i mean, just look up ‘kiwi bird’ on google images and see how cute they are!

prosaic
meaning boring

I think I will apocolypse

Randomness should be it since that’s what this generation is all about.Especially the Universe,

Apocalypse is the obvious word

I think is should be… FLABERGASTED

katy k on November 13, 2012 at 10:15 pm
platitudinous
because its funny sounding, and the article says it was a boring year. so lets spice it up with fun word! that means boring

I agree with katy

“Secede”

The word of the year could also be “SECEDE” as this is what 47 states are trying to do now that Obama has been re-elected.

I would say sympathy because it is the last year until 100 more years that 12/12/12 happens. Really. I really feel SYMPATHETIC and I hope you choose this word.

I’m so sick of hearing the word EPIC!!! It was so overused by children AND adults.

I think it should be MONEY. $__$
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tedious should be the word because i agree that 2012 has been rather boring ESPECIALLY in the political campaigns. Thankyou this is Simone Lewis signing out also respect the scene kidds

I think it should be contemptuosly because its a funny word and it rolls off the tounge.

Catawompus
the computer seems to think i did not spell this right but i think you know what i mean if not it is what tyler at the very top said.:)

I think this year’s word should be “wherewithal.” It is kind of a fun word.

A.
Or I.

2012 WORD OF THE YEAR IS ………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………….ONE DIRECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepicossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon.

And yes, that IS a word, and Im sure thats the correct spelling.

‘DEPRESSO’ all thru the year, from every corner and every field – not just economy, the news have been depressing and coming as fast as expresso.

SWAG

Avuncular

Higgs-boson

Fracking

Anatidaephobia-the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you…

It has absolutely nothing to do with 2012, but it would be awesome for it to be tho official word of 2012, because, seriously, you cant beat anatidaephobia. i mean come on. really. that is the most amazing word ever. really. anatidaephobia.

Dr. Octoganupus BBBBAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND

The word of the year should be “Homologous”, due to the fact that it is just like every other year. We (The U.S.A.) still owe a lot, we are still in a war, there are still environmental problems….etc. I think we see where this is going by now.

I think the word that best describes 2012 is the word disastrous

spelunker

Pneamonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis

Word of the year should be Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious or sawr as one of the lyrics from the beatles Til’ There Was You <3

president

Rendezvous

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
longest word in major dictionary

i would say PHENOMENAL (referring to flashfloods, typhoons, hurricanes, earthquakes, and people getting weird all over the globe ; also, higgs boson discovery —or had they really found it?)

i think it should be hypopotomonstrousisequipidaliophobia, the fear of long words! (look it up!!)
~andrew

(its better than Anatidaephobia by the way)
~andrew

It should Kindling!

i think it should be cool-beans

Curiosity

apocalyptic maybe?

I believe that the 2012 Word of the Year should be caliginous.

It should be Oppa Gangnam Style. lol

Sockdolager

YOLO

It should be, well, obviously

As always the word of the year should be… Nerd fighter!!!! YESHHH

My word for 2012: “over”, as in thanks be to God it’s over.

I tink it should be

ONE DIRECTION !

=) =D 0_o <3

Paranoia!!!!!!! its 2012, zombies, end of the world, government n economic scares, yay.

Pseudostratifiedcilialcolumnarepithelial cells!!!

guys it has to be stellar!!!!!!!!! its a greta word. my sister says it 200000 times a day stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,stellar,

Swag

BROBDINGNAGIAN-

MY ULTIMATE FAVE WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ludicrous. Describes 2012 perfectly. And the all the other years for that matter. And I mean, come on, who doesn’t love a good Mel Brooks reference now and then.

“Prepare ship for Light Speed!”
“No no no Light Speed is too slow!”
“Light Speed too slow?”
“Yes! We’re gonna have to go right to Ludicrous Speed!”

OR SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS- WHIRLING OF EVERYTHING DESCRIBES 2012 LIKE NONE OTHER WORD. IT COULD BE ANYTHING. ORRRRRRR………
I GOT IT!
METAPHOR BECAUSE THERE WERE SOME THINGS THAT HAPPENED LIKE A METAPHOR… OR PERSONIFICATION… UNBELIEVABLE…. LIKE IT WAS 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

apocalypse

it should be . .devil

How bout a quote of the year….
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” ~ Oscar Wilde.
I think we should all remember that in the coming days.

lol :p

Awesomness!!

it should be “smurf” .. because the movie smurf was so cool and it brought laughter to a lot of people who watched it… and it has great lessons to learn..^___^

I suggest the word

LUKEWARM

adjective
1. moderately warm; tepid.
2. having or showing little ardor, zeal, or enthusiasm; indifferent: lukewarm applause.

Hippomonstroficquippedaliophobia!

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. the fear of long words. In short, some guy somewhere reading these comments got the crap scared out of him

apocalyptic

Pumpernickel

alive! Because we survived “2012″

hands down it should be “euphoric”(fear of good news)

The word of the day should be…One Direction x

I believe the word of the year would be feckless since nothing has been done to slow down the economy receive.

sorry guy word of the YEAR should be One Direction. x

Ubiquitous

Mom

I think that the word of the year should be Debt or hypocritical.

I don’t care what word is – - – just pick a positive word. Don’t jump on the Negative Nellie bandwagon!!

Come on people! Don’t cling to the negative. There were many positive things that happened this year. If you didn’t agree with the election results don’t have a pity party and let that define the word of the year.

Egregious

Complex but lends itself to frequent use. Go Wall Street!

I agree with Howard Ryan in that liberal should be the word of the year.

The word that surfaced over and over in 2012 was ” Seriously ?”
Commonly used as an outcry when observing something that you disagree with.
Example:
News Reporter, “Congress is going to take a 6 month vacation even though there is an impending zombie apocalypse”

Observer, “SERIOUSLY !?….SERIOUSLY???”
alternately the word “REALLY ?” is used multiple times.

FYI i just put a randome website

I think that the word of the year should be
acquisitiveness, hypocritical, or intemperance. These words, unfortunately all describe the greed, lies, and political issues our world has.

either change or controversy

I definitely disagree with all the people insisting it be yolo and swag and all that other crap. It should be something original, like… hodgepodge!

Hyperbole…because hyperbole is the GREATEST THING EVER!!!!

It should be Gangnam Style, a phrase that means “swag” in the U.S. and is extremely popular worldwide.

SORRY

NIGHTMARE

Gullible . we are currently freaked out about the 12/21/12 Mayan calender thing, and we believed Obama’s speech, and Romney’s lies . Plus a bunch of other things .

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikomaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (It’s a real name)

Hmm. 2012. How about ‘octagon’. It doesn’t make any sense, but it feels right for me. ‘2012, year of the octagons’…..
In my opinion, 2012 wold be ‘bezoar’, but that doesn’t sound very pleasant, in fact, sort of gross.
My vote is ‘octagon’. It’s all I can do.

The word of 2012 could be CRISIS. Euro finiacial crisis, American financial cliff and Japan’s crisis is on its way.

And don’t forget what year it is — 2012! the crisis for the whole human beings.

scandalism

The word of the day should be either scolionophobia, One Direction or Directioner <3

I think it should be the ignorance but as a collective noun to describe the judiciary, for example an ignorance of judges.

Mystery…or maybe a puzzle

Choice…. or maybe…. autocracy

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia,it is one of my favourite words!!!!!:D

Termination, because the world is supposed to end.

But we all know that it won’t actually end.

I think the word of the year should be: transparent. It should be this word because it has been very clear and boring.

I think that the world of the year should be, globalization, as we as people have never been so connected so interested and absorbed in what is happening around the world in each others countries, homes schools and life, I know social media has been around for a while but i think this year its really expanding our mind to think outside our homes.

mind-boggling

I think the word should be Obama-care

Onomatopoiea

Twenty-twelve .

2012 Word of the Year should be Obamalicious…

Occupy

i think it should be….
Supercalifragilisticespialidosus

sophophobia- the fear of learnig

Socialism

Awesomeness

Malarkey! (I can’t believe people had to look it up….) Lord knows the year was full of it.

wereinthistogether

DOOMSDAY

My word is parishable. Parishable is what we are, the world is, our banking and infrastructure. Parishables are what we won’t have enough of if the shit really hits the fan and even more people are displaced, broke,homeless and hungry. Parish is what is going to happen to every greedy, lying, wicked hearted thief that has ever done God’s children wrong. It beats the heck out of swag.

Crazy!!!

floccinaucinihilipilification

squiggalypiggaly-

a deformed pig

Rude. Because that’s what the world is nowadays.

ungainly

Election

I would like to suggest the word for the year be; Aliferous, because the year seemed to swiftly fly by without much of an impact.

I think the word “zombie” should be the word of the year!

The word of the year should defintely be

supercalifragilisticexpilidocious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
favorite word!!!!!!!

Ruff Higgs-boson!

I’ve got quite a simple word. It’s not rare, unusual, nor does it twist your tongue. I nominate the word “next.” As I would like this next year to come in a more rapid fashion…

If not I also enjoy these words: Vanquish, Acquire, Conquer, and Vantage. Likewise, they are neither rare, unusual, and do not twist your tongue. However, they are very powerful and inspiring words.

maelstrom

The word of the year should be “polarized.” I cannot remember a more polarized national situation than this past year. Politics were polarized on issues of pecuniary spending. The nation was polarized in its choice for politicians. People were polarized on their support of gay marriage, immigration, defense spending, etc. It has been a year of division, stark and polarized division.

Do you know what would in keeping with 2012? Let us the readers vote on the word. The editors can give us 4-10 choices and let us pick. Most votes wins – that’s democracy. Is there a better word for it? Unless you want to establish an electoral college…

blatherskite = empty talk

Foppish or Mangrove

it should be YOLO

Hornswoggle

My word of the year choice?…….”godless”

Dissemble: Most of what passed for inormation this past year, was nothing more than elegant dissembling, especially during the campaign season.

How about banal?It has been a mostly mundane year, punctuated by a few interesting events.But mostly just boring.In global terms.

I think the word should be destitution, dispossesion or deprivation.
Think of the world we live in. Every country there is a form of destitution. The way of the world lately is to deprive others for the success of themselves. And dispossesion goes hand in hand with destitution and deprivation. We are led to destitution by dispossession. Dispossession usually occures with deprivation. Maybe the bank will not give you a loan or a friend is too “broke” to lend a hand financially. I feel these words are the most realistic for this year.

Pulchritudinous! It’s really fun to say, and it’s a great, beautiful word that describes our great, beautiful world.

Frankestorm

i think it should be
————————-SYRIA————
poor syria…

I think the word of the year should be ‘histrionic’. It’s one of my favorites, one that I learnt this year and I love it!

Some other suggestions for you to pick from your ballot box!
tranquility
quagmire
malarkey
loquacious
discombobulated
(to me, these are all extremely fun words that you can roll around on your tongue and simply enjoy! I feel like for all of these, their meanings match the way the word is spelled/said)

Thank you very much x)

There is only one word that I feel is suited to be elevated to a height so profound:

“Metallica”

I think it should be *happening* because so much is happening in the world today.
Thank you for reading! :3

flibbertigibbet

CRUEL!!!!!

i think the word should be supercalafragalisticexpealadoushous

Absurd.

DIMMER

polarizing

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia-the fear of long words
It doesn’t really have anything to do with 2012. but just think it looks and sounds cool.

I think the word of the year should be idiosyncratic, which means peculiar or eccentric.

This word describes 2012 due to the “de-evolution” of the current generation Y, as generation Y has developed into quite a “peculiar” generation to say the least.

uncertain

For not being able to choose a word.

I think the word should be one of the following or their derivatives:

schism
divorce
separation
division
sunder

Synecdoche

Terrible / annoying

I nominate “double down.” I know that technically it is TWO words, but I heard this figure of speech so often in political news stories that I think it really summarizes the year.

The term originated in the casino game of Blackjack (look it up if you don’t know it). In politics it refers to a situation where somebody makes a controversial or factually incorrect statement. When they are criticized, instead of backing off and/or apologizing, they don’t merely stand behind it, but instead they strengthen or expand their position.

It happened countless times during the campaign season at all levels, and usually was called out by the media. After all, that’s part of their job.

exoplanet

vampires i love them <3

For 2012 (if we’re doing this in English), I have two suggestions. One, suggested by someone in the above comments, is hyperreality. Either that or discombobulated, which is a synonym to “confused”.
Go Dictionary.com and WordDynamo.com!

I think the word for 2012 should be “47%” used by Mitt Romney during the campaign 2012.

I have 2 suggestions: “Statism” or “Sheeple”
Because the country (and most of the world, for that matter) has been overrun by statists, many of whom can be accurately described as sheeple.

Minecraft. If it was a real word.

“Sketch” Even though I don;t think it’s a legalized word yet haha. People use that world a lot though.

It should be a word used most this year.

meme

I think the word of the year should be “exigency”, which means “accident, trouble”. There has been a lot of both this year, what with Hurricane Sandy and all of the bloodshed and such.

During the week leading up to Sandy the term “Frankenstorm” was bandied about, and is till think its a good word. But since then pretty much every media outlet has taken to using the term “superstorm” Sandy.

Superstorm seems like a fitting term to describe the year with politics and the aftermath and the storms and their aftermath.

i think theword of 2012 should be lolly gagging because it’s my teacher’s favorite word and she wont stop saying it! it gets really annoying

Tranparent – used by President Obama to describe his administration.

YOLO!!

movey

Olympics

i think the word should be Supercalifragillisticexpeallidousios because its long, weird and its very cool

I think the word of 2012 should be ‘Champagne’ because there have been lots of celebrations this year

Hipster

ord should be hippopottomontrososquipisaliaphobia or however you spell it(get this, its the fear of long words!!!!!)

Forty-seven per cent. Or binders.

P.S. Teresa, not sure what you’re attempting to spell. Demogue?!?

screwels
sheeple
Barack O’Claus

i think the word of the year should be 1 of three: Perception, Mental, or Corrupt

“quantitative easing” OR “superstorm”

I think it should “anticipation” given all the hype over the suposed end of the world

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Its 1185 words and a chemical (I’m not kidding).

ridiculous, preposterous, outrageous, any words that mean crazy

Really, a word my friend and I like is technicalities. Then again, another friend would claim that Manti Te’o could count as a word.

Gangnam

secede

Revolution

nifty lets be real what else is more sir like

Whoever thinks that YOLO or swag should be the word of 2012 needs to be sent away from this planet. Swag and YOLO are way overused and are never said at the correct times.

I believe the 2012 WOTY should reflect the world of this year. Personally, I find the world to be heading into a state of unsatisfactory being and a fantastic word to describe this situation would be: CORRUPT.

the word should me scrumptious

OBSTRUCTIONIST
OBSTRUCTIONIST!
OBSTRUCTIONIST!!
How many times do I hear it a day? I’ve lost count.

It should be Ogttty this year. Obama Got #Two Termz This Year!!!!! YOLO

Meme!!!

i have three suggestions for the word of the year.
1. malarky
2. forward (president obamas logo)
3. adazzle
my first choice would be adazzle and yes it is a real word

VIRAL

I think the word should be hornswoggle. I may have spelled that wrong, if so, I appologize.

I think the 2012 word would be BALONEY. I have heard many politicians, political pundits and the media as well as use this word over and over again. I hope we would see eye to eye over this word.

it should be shut up.everyone uses that word

shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up.see

“Mayan’s” should be the word of the year. “galactic alignment maximum” the pronoun and “spiritual transcendence” the verb. “New age” should be the beginning of all trail of thought…

I think that 2012 should be atrocious. It should be atrocious because it was such a horrible year. Please accept my offer because I used fancy words

fumble

or monotonous

infinite
everybody is obsessed with this word because its always seen on tumblr and the new trend it having it like tattooed…or if that doesn’t work it should be YOLO

Clusterf**k

Interrobang

lively. it just was.

“AWESOME” BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN AN AWESOME YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

i think the word should be donut angels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think the word of the year should be erratic, because that is what 2012 was full of.
p.s. I think Obama should get impeached because
he doesn’t know how to run a country.

p.p.s. I’m only eleven.

schadenfreude should be the word of the year for 2013…the year of the presidential election……or maybe malicious.

i think the word of the year should be either fantastic, wonderful, or incredible

I don’t think it should be something stupid- like swag or YOLO- or something ridiculous like supercalifragiliciousexpialadocious, but it should be something fun to say, whether or not it has to do with the year, so here’s a list of words I like, in categories:

Math: Hexaflexagon, dodecahedron, googal, vortex

Science: Higgs-Boson, hyperreality, synethesia, syzygy, quark

Fan-Based: Nerdfighter, Potterhead, Llamarmy, Whovian, supermegafoxyawesomehot

Randomly Awesome: pulchritudinous, serendipity, quagmire, malarkey, phantasm, maelstrom, exterminate, regenerate, fez, surreptitiously, sonic, misconstrued,

Words that should NOT be Word of the Year: swag, YOLO, epic, seriously, ironic, apocalyse

XD

we’ll find some way…

I think the word should be what describes, what we as mankind has lost:
Moral Rectitude

Whatever the word of the year is, it should NOT be named after the U.S. election – it should be something that involved us all. Not everything is about the United States.

Politcs (too much politics)

Here another word that describes the times we live in: Convoluted

I think the word should be “Apocalypse” because of all the talk of the 2012 doomsday and the widespread interest and influence of the “Zombie Apocalypse”, a new fad in modern culture.

Lachrymal!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It should be doomsday.

A continued list of words (I forgot to add them):

Math: extrapolate

Music: pentatonic, chromatic

Literature: ampersand, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, synonymous, connotation, linguistic

Science: supernova

Randomly Awesome: dissemble, ubiquitous, conundrum, animosity, ginger, tenant, austerity, impartiality, bacon, perpetrator, perversity, expelliarmus (not English, but who cares), gypsy, pianist, concerto, fricasee, rationalize, agnosticism, radical, insinuate, infiltrate

Words that should NOT be Word of the Year: Gangnam Style, hashtag

Imagine, freedom, capricious, strong, or brave.

Considering the apparent apocalypse due to the Mayan calender, why not something quirky in reference? Like Telos?

Conversely, something to reiterate how bland this year has been in terms of new words? Like humdrum (that lurpack advert made it one of my favourite words) or tedious?

Looking forwards to this year’s word!

hyperreality

Tmesis

Probably amaranthine!!!!!!!!!

I think the word of 2012 should be

GANGNAMSTYLE!!!!!!!!!

i think it should be one direction or taylor swift…………………………………………………..

Pontification

Obfuscate! Because, truthfully, we’re all obfuscated by something in some way or another.
ob·fus·cate   [ob-fuh-skeyt, ob-fuhs-keyt]
verb (used with object), ob·fus·cat·ed, ob·fus·cat·ing.
1. to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
2. to make obscure or unclear: to obfuscate a problem with extraneous information.
3. to darken.

The word of the year should either be SWAG, YOLO, (both of which i hate with a firey passion), or GANGNAM STYLE.

In light of the events of this past year, I believe that a good word would be…………………………..divided

I meant Obamacare

The word should be banana!

I think that the 2012 word of the year so should either be:
Awesome
Confusing
YOLO
or
Yo Mama

it should be Diva !!!!

‘Dark Money.’ Campaign contributions to ’social welfare organizations’ aka 501c3’s, where the size and donor are kept secret.

finite is a good word

I think the WOTY should be………..
Controversial. If this year hasn’t been anything it else, it was most definitely controversial.

it should be…….ONE DIRECTION!!!!!!! Yeah buddy

i think the word should be a unique word. that word could be a palendrome or something but make it special

No, What’s-his-name is right:

Romnesia. Gotta do it.

COMMUNISM!!!!!!

It should be confuzzeled. (It means confused)

I think the word of the year should be FUNNER because 2012’s people have become very lazy and so the word FUNNER has been added to the dictionary.
Thanks,
Caylin

The Magic Word is Now FUNNER

I think it should either be pulchritudinous because how America is coming back out of the recession and to its former glory, or ironic. It’s ironic that President Obama won again. Or humdrum since it was a boring year. Or enigmatic. That always sounds like a cool word.

Or fiscal for the fiscal cliff or agumental since congress can’t agree on how to handle the fiscal cliff yet.

Obama. It was used, like, TRILLION times the year alone.

Failure, due to the failure of our country to pick an actually good person for the presidency for the second time in a row

I believe the word of 2012 should be riddie. It is a word that my friend and I made up and it most definitely defines 2012, especially November.

Thaumaturgical: Because it means magical. If you want more words, you should read the Sebastian Reckless series by Rushton Howard.

apocalypse

i like flit

sparky lyle (baseball player) or sparky frankenstein (zombie dog)

Chutzpah. ‘Nuff said.

also duodecimal and sexigesimal (math)
and in my first post, it’s *apocalypse, sorry for the mis-spell

Or possibly Luposlipophobia. The fear of being chased around a kitchen table by timber wolves while wearing socks on a newly-waxed floor. Or Anatidaephobia— the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.
Gary Larsen =D

I think it should be Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. (new mono ultra scopic silico volcano coni osis.) it is a lung disease transmitted by silica dust

Nicole Dixson

Rom-nesia
The word coined by President Obama to describe his then challenger Mitt Romney sudden position change on just about every previous stance on the issues being debated.

i agree with Sonia. Way to go girl

I vote for “Higgs Boson.” It’s two words, of course, but verification of its existence will certainly distinguish this year in the science community.

yolo

Politics:Boring
School: Boring
Election:Cool ( I hoped for Obama)
Summer Olympics: O.K. (Though I wanted Brazil to win)

Best word for 2012…
STUFF.

By a seventh grader in Lynn Middle School
Las Cruses, NM

Binders…. full of women

it should be obviously , chinchilla because for a fact their awesome.

I’ll vote for prestidigitation, as one of the few people who don’t need to look it up.

I think the word of the year should be as the following:
1.incognito
2.Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
3.Brobdignagian
4.Hubristic

Ort

It should be brobdingnagiant.

i agree with really any word. but this year was malicious to me, and maybe even record breaking!!! cool? i love to act so i recommended actors gang. but flameo i agree!! minecraft= coolness!!!!!!1

Dysfunctional.
Need I say more?

GANGNAM

Gangnam Style!

Gangnam Style.

i think it should be awsome!!!

Gangnam Style

I think the word for 2012 should be doomed, because Obama and all the bleeding heart liberals who are feeding off our tax money are going to ruin the USA, something needs to change.

I think that the word of the year should be “sycophant.”

oosh

ritartbis a really good word

i love 1 direction yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

swag , yolo , or one direction not really words but very popular in 2012.

faeces

bitter-sweet ;
for the days where everybody is
anxious (another good one) and excited for
random things, but BAM! Super-storm
(this is yet another good one) Sandy comes in

Directioners vs. Directionators ;
for the whole
world to love, the ” i LOVEE 1D!!!! did you
know they are from London!?i was born there
to!!! there’s Harry, and Liam, and…..”, or
the “ick! i hate justin buti’d rather listen to
him than 1D..”

(\__/)
( o o) gimme tat cookie
(> )>

(\__/)
( ~ ~) NOO!
O<(….<)

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Search it! It exists!

chaotic….destruction…illuminati…enlightenment

Reverberate or proverbial

Pulchritudinous should be the word of 2012!!!!

yolo for sure

Malarky ~ it describes a lot of the government, culture and societal happenings of this year.

YOLO- you only lick oreo’s!!!!

orrrrrr……

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

wasabi

epoch

ep·och [ep-uhk or, especially Brit., ee-pok]

a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, etc. The beginning of a distinctive period in the history of anything.

smitten *

Catawampus!

The population world over is waiting for some transformation or change to happen including in US.. Trying to transform govt., leaders and existing system of Governance and waiting forever for SUN to brighten each lives! So the apt word for me is “the Wait”

Waiting for a better future..not only in US but world over and recently in China too!

quincunx

ALLEGORICAL definitely encapsulates this year of 2012.

We will see how accurate after Dec 21!

I like the word DUFUS a word that could of been used alot this year! incompetent and stupid,though well meaning person.

I think it should be Gangnam Style! hehe

I think it should be “Gangnam Style”.
haha

Ladelotelli

‘Four’ as in 4 more years for B.Obama

2012 – the year in which the world was saved from having a religous nut-job elected as US president and put in charge of the big red button.

Somniferous, because this year has been incredibly somniferous. Nuff said.

I’ll just drop this here:
>> Apotheosis <<

Superstorm

I believe that a fitting word for 2012 would be “floccinaucinihilipilification” — the estimation of something as valueless. It would be perfect seeing as everything was fairly boring around the country. Boredom is fairly valueless….

At least that’s what I think anyways. Haha.

i think it should be Yolo or Chaos. first of all because of all the chaos going around with elections, end of the world, and all the natural disasters going around. So maybe The word should be

OMEGA!!!!!! OMEGA OMEGA

Yolo
Swag
Gif
meme
apocalypse

i think it should be “end”

The South!!!!

The word should be Romney’s famous Deturpate

Legit

quagmire or wereinthistogether .it will be the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Armageddon

Vitriole

Outlier

Defenestration. The throwing of a person or thing out the window. It must be defenestration. EX: “Shut up or I will DEFENESTRATE you!” Very good threat.

i think the word of 2012 should be something that describes America maybe it will describe our adolescents maybe something we won’t admit that we over-joy at the sight of maybe a word like ruthless, or virulence, or even selfishness because we are obviously a country of shoot first, ask later. care about yourselves before others and if submitting a word to a website opens someones eyes, maybe someone who cares and can do something then I will be glad i was heard.

ABSURD

Cheese balls

antidisastablishmentarism

also cookie are yummie, pandas are the best, lamas suck

Trending. It’s the hottest word, at least among TV newscasters, this year. Depending on the topic, the talking heads keep telling us we’re either trending up or trending down, trending here or trending there, trending forward, trending toward, trending ahead, etc. Seems we’re always trending in a state of flux, never quite reaching “closure” (another hot/overused word).

pronunciation

I think that the word which clearly sums up 2012 is ” metamorphosis” , which is a synonym of change, for the follwin reasons:
1) the world witnessed a change in the government of two of the most powerful economies of the world i.e America & China.
2) India saw its people coming together under the leadership of Kejriwal to challenge the prevalent corruption.

Secession

Nullification

Legalization

All great words that end up promoting freedom and liberty – something this country desperately needs more of.

Frankenstorm or better yet Freakenstorm!

I think it should be Hot or some synonym to extremely hot!

Churlish. Did you follow the election this year ?

HOBO is my favourite. +1!!

dichotomous

Ineptocracy

(in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

i think the word of the year should be Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, because it is a long random word with no true meaning and to me and my family that is how this year has gone long and meaningless.

The word of the year should be trending. Everything is trending!

2012 word of the year : Legit.

My simple suggestion is “frankenstorm”. That reminds me of frankenstorm sandy has done in this year.

Styrkarr

It should be “coquettish”. (Meaning to be flirtatious and things of the sort.) It can be found that divorce rates are rising and many of the teenage generation (and a bit younger and a bit older) seem to be a bit flirtatiously and scandalous.
Fitting to me.

How about “irrelevant.”

I suggest serial_liar as this was the mainstay of the overly long election process.

Socialism

Ok since 2012 is soon over we should pick a word for 2013…. if we make it that far. lol JK

Obamacare

I think it has staying power. We’ll be calling the apparatus of the Affordable Health Care Act, Obamacare for a long time, I predict, whether you like the law or not.

I think it should be sanguine or sable just because those are awesome words.

Entitlement should be the word of the year!

bodacious

I second the idea of the word “malarky.” It was a stand-out during the vp debate, and it pretty well sums up most of what’s happening, at least on a national scale.

one word could possibly win…

APOCALYPSE

Self-Absorbed

Obamanation (meaning: abomination of the united states, leaving it desolate)

meme i like that

The 2012 word of the yeah should be:
Bankrupt

Obama-care

Forward.

Schismogenesis!

I think “Trumped Up” would be a good one. Among a heavily occupied field in the political arena participating in this activity, the most visible proprieter of this appellate (both in media coverage and self-promotion) managed to imbue the term with a delicious double entendre, himself.

the word of the year should be SWADLIN

(putnam)

Colloquial.

Sequestration.

Superstition, stereotypical, fear, psychic, Mayan, calender, crisis, end-of-the-world, fake, misread, history, sensitivity, economic, economy, misfortune, junk, galactic, interpretation, misinterpretation, space, closed, placid, acid, vibrissa, vibrant, plain, unvarying, love, hate, death, suicide, drug, animals, unity, peace, war, nuclear, warnings, signs, spare, wary, beware, aware, unaware, conspiracy, unfairness, fairness, rights, racism, prejudice, unwelcome, welcome, Sandy, superstorm, Global Warming, pollution, glacial melting, glacial, melting, heat, Climate Change, magnetic, changes, North, South, technology, failure, revolutionary

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

“the”

decrepitude- decrepit condition; dilapidated state

This is where we are now socially, economically and environmentally.

Presidental or Election should be the word of the year
or even END should describe 2012.

MEME!

OCCUPY

MEDIAETRIC middle aged; twixt paediatric and geriatric

Yes, Let It Be YOLO This Year ( :

or Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Loser year!

Disenfrustrate – verb – to anger and frustrate a voter whose vote becomes nullified by means of the electoral college system.

Word of the year: malarkey

I think the word of the day should be either “swag” or “meme” or “viral.”

I think the word of 2012 should be zouk because a lot of people don’t know what it means or that even existed. It should also be picked because it sounds cool and means something really cool. (whoever reads this should look it up to figure out what it means, because I know but I bet you don’t =]

It Should be YOLO

A word that all global aggressors should be implementing;

deescalation.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!!
It is what you say when you don’t know what to say.
In other words, to express yourself.

also, it is not fair that other people said that word before me; I only found out about this a few minutes ago!!!

and by this I mean this word of the year thing.

The word of the year should be REDDIT. No reason. Just thought it would be fitting. To everybody that says “YOLO” or “SWAG” should be word of the year, NO. Just NO.

Obviously the word of the year should be ‘widdershins’. It describes the attitude towards the 2012 prophecies, as well as many failed doomsday prophecies this year alone. It’s also really fun to say and nobody has any idea what I’m gabbling on about when I use it in a sentence– or ever, to be fair.

–Soulvei

superstorm

I think it should be enigmatic because 2012 was supposed to be the end of the world as we know it, but as we’re still alive typing away at our computers, it hasn’t happened

If Yolo becomes the word of the year I am quitting this language once and for all, it is true that common usage of any combination of letters that is incorporated into the vernacular should be deemed as a word, but all falls flat if we can no longer discern between an acronym and a word.

Once again, yolo is not a word and as it stands it never will be.

Lackadaisical

Disaster

Big Brother

Socialism

Freedom

Perseverance

supercalifradialisticexpialidocious

The word of the year should be: ObamaFoolUsAll.

The Mayans won’t end the world; Obama will!

word of the year 2012\

AMALAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

diatribe

I think it should be CROZAIN!

Or, adistic. I made it up, and it should mean to feel towards something because of the latin prefix. It makes sense right?

ADISTIC
ADISTIC
ADISTIC
ADISTIC

The diction with respect to or amidst veneration via 2012 would be malignant and the pulchritude of the advancement of our intellectual society. Although still mentioning antediluvian maledictions in which was used prior to even near 2013.

Also, 2012 comprises of a 2-day in one. Rapid and it’s oxymoron.

Benghazigate.

~Pnuenumberdicsalicous – its a fancy words my friends and i use (awesome, of great value, or a hot person)

~ With-did – another word we use (idiot, stupid, derp to the max)

The word-of-the-year should be persecution.

In the election, which is probably the biggest event of the year, both Obama and Romney’s campaigns spent more time being slanderous and misusing quotes than anything else. In the vice-presidential debate, all Biden did was insult Romney. Because of this, the word should b persecution.

Antidisestablishmentarianism is a wonderful word! One should check it out

rowdydowdy! Between the elections and Sandy, this year is perfectly described by this word.

The word of the year…that’s simple…”obamacare.”

I love these words :

succotash
kumquat
eclipse

it should be…….
(drumroll)
chaotic
(for many reasons)

Paradoxical

Defenestrate: to throw something or someone out of a window.

Defenestrate should be the word of the year because no matter who you are, liberal or conservative, rich or poor, you were probably extremely frustrated at some point in the duration of this year, and wanted to throw something (or some one) out of a window.

I think the word of the year should be… hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Because, oddly enough, it is a fear of long words. My favorite word.

Bazinga.

SO (found at the end of many sentences this year)

The word should be synonymous with panic, disappointment, failure, crisis, bankruptcy, annoyance, and anarchy

YOLO.

I’d go for “Spectacle” in Guy Debord’s sense…

Ostrobogulous.

Conversant, an aspirational word . . . for us all.

Bailed Out
Intolerant
Corrupt

twitter

Mayan Troll.

Hi, I think that the 2012 word should be Hope, because I think that this is what a lot of people are trying to do when hard times come to them.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

I think the word of the year should be something that none of us at the time knew we even needed to know before all of this political stuff came to the front of the class so to speak and caught all of our attention. The word is actually two words that make up one. Debt Ceiling. Something that for years we heard and never paid attention to because we thought it didn’t pertain to us until one man got up there and told us what it was that was being talked about over all of the American peoples head who didn’t even realize it was something that we should be aware of.

quaint

ecomooneclipse- surroundings,plus the obscuring of light from the moon.( the new word for the year of 2012 )

It should be higgs boson

my pick for the word for 2012 would be “hubris” which means arrogance or excessive pride.

Gangnam Style

…..the perfect word iz…” stugatz ” that word sayz it all…..enjoy ur day…

I think the two words are significant : Metamorphosis or Transformation

The world has been rocked by political upheaval, natural calamities, rising crimes & attrocities against women, children & elders, scams, turbulent stock markets, economical instability to name a few. Spiritual awakening, compassion & peace at the global level are the only ways of bringing back the humankind from the brink of total extinciton

HYPERREALITY

cliff hanger, gangnam style

aspiration

metamorphosis is a good one !!!!!!

indian summer

supercalifragilisticxpalidochious

If its gangum style, swag, or yolo, i will literally unsubscribe to dictionary.com. ridiculous.
i know theres a word that means making a new word. I cant think of it, but it seems so many ppl make up new hybrid words these days, its stupid but its everywhere! So, that word that means creating a new hybrid word out of two perfectly good separate words, or maybe taboo, thats a good word.

My submission for funniest word is : ointment

oracular

radioactive-unicorns

I think it should be……. Blasphemy!!!!!

end

As we enter the golden age of planetary discovery,embrace the discovery of the Higgs-Boson Particle, and bring astrophysics to the kitchen table, I humbly nominate the word “Spaghettification”, a scientific term used to describe what happens to matter once it reaches the event horizon of a black hole. Look to the future (and there will be one) and not ephemeral cliche’s and urban slang.

My nomination for word of the year is “Superstorm” I just hope that it will not become the word of the decade….but I fear that it may.

GANGNAM STYLE
awwwww, come on, the world is on a craze about this song!!

Perspicaciousness, or discernment. Something our world needs more of.

it should be OBAMA

Corruption

Akward

in reply to anna:

I think “quagmire” happens to be the perfect word to describe this year!

~FUTILE~
Feudal works too…

Regurgitate. Because we are just going to get more of the same B$ from a certain someone in the White House that we’ve had for the last four years.

bazooka

It should definitely be “malarkey.” The second that it was used in the Vice Presidential debate, everyone logged on to the internet to look it up.

romnesia

Frisky!!

gumption. no reason, just an awesome word. and it was in sabrina the teenage witch

or hippomonstrosesquippedaliophobia its the fear of long words

mysterious…suspense…AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

maya end

Higgs-Boson

I think the 2012 word should be stupefaction.

Mayan

The word is CRITERIA: As in; What criteria do you use to decide what you do?

the word of the year 2012 should be
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

the word of the year should be Dementors.it has been a Dark year for many.

Gangnam Style!

Hard

idk??

haha
lol

Cataclysm for the December 21, 2012

Ummm well i think it should’ve been chaotic <—- I really like this word lol i think it really describes the place where i live.

Castrophony. (Despite the ostensible derivation it has nothing to do with either Castro or phones; it’s a portmanteau of catastrophe and cacophony, which I think is very appropriate for this year– lots of people shouting about terrible things going to happen and not a whole lot actually going on.)
Failing that: microcosm, sesquipedalia, perspicacity, or gloaming.

Surely the word of the year should be ‘Petulant’ as in our Arrogant Petulant Punk POTUS.

LOVE!!! it is a strong word

End.

The technical name for “tintin”. It is the longest word of 189,819 letters. Hope this gets voten.

necroizing faciitis

i like onamonapia too

or Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

ok maybe Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Lol YOLO

i think the ideal one can be one of the following three:

1. obnoxious
2. perfumery
3. megalomaniac

and there can be so many more great question though.. thanks for the opportunity to suggest

Anisa: Perfect description of 2012.

Despise, loath, detest, abhor, hate. Death, pain, murder, kill. Destruction, catastrophe, disaster. Fear, superstition. Belief, trust. Love, union, undivided, together, whole. Explore, discover. Tangle, knot, confusion, disorientation, perplexity, chaos. Ruin, depression, despair, affliction, burdens, hurt. Labor, strenuous, trial. Revulsion, disgust, wretched. Advances, change, regression, declination. Obsession, torment, haunt, harass. Life.

How about “meme”? Internet memes clearly dominated not just the internet this year, but real life. You see people printing pictures of them and posting them everywhere. They even made it to mainstream internet like Facebook.
If not meme, then definitely “Arab Spring”. I know it’s two words, but…

Meme.

The word of the year is

WOOOOOOOOW!!!!

Diversiloquent
Di`ver*sil”o*quent\, a. [L. diversus diverse + loquens, p. pr. of loqui to speak.] Speaking in different ways.

I believe that the word should be “commemorate” because this year will go down in history for many reasons. Be it because of the Higgs-Boson, Obamacare, Obama’s re-election, etc. This year will be commemorated for years to come.

Rapacious

The rapacious election season caused major rifts in the country.

infinitestimal because there was an infinitestimal amount of excitment

infinitestimal: very small

Vicissitudinous

“Deception”
“Serfdom”
“Debt Slave”
“Corruption”

–or–

how about:

“war” …after all, we are in a never ending world war and the American people seem to be to really good at it.

…I realize “debt slave” is two words.

cow

malarky

2012 Word of the Year –
- Hyperbole – An obvious exaggeration.

antiinterdenominationallistically. Slightly longer than antidisestablishmentarianism, which is somewhat akin to my choice!

Revelations because we will know if it is truly the end or not

I think it should be
Hippopotomonstrosisquippidaliophobia: The fear of the long words

up-rise
revolutionary
pandemonium

Pulchritudinous.

obigmistake! meaning obama was a big mistake

Considering how many thousand words there are in the English language, it is rather difficult to choose which one should win. If it doesn’t really have to reflect what happened this year, and if it has to be rarely used in the U.S., I’d pick “aluminium”. Americans use “aluminum”, but the rest of the world, as far as I know, uses the -ium ending to follow the pattern of “sodium (natrium)”, “potassium (kalium)”, “radium”, “uranium”, “bohrium”, etc.

Romnesia

SALUBRIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD

Spaggetification. What happens when you are stretched, literally! Makes me laugh… Probs coz I like spaghetti and for a lot of people this year has, for lack of better word, stretched them

demographics — Affecting virtually every aspect of our public lives these days, highlighted by how the presidential election was won.

*Higgs Boson
*Olympia
* Jubilant
*Cosmos

BOBBYCOCK!!!!!!!!!!

2012: apocalypse, armageddon, holocaust, doomsday, calamity, ragnarök, dermanenlion, tribulation, eschatology, potato whatever you want to call it.

One DIRECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think the word of the year should be apocalypse because there has been so much speculation about ‘ the end of the world’ this year due to it being the end of the mayan calender.

dragons the year of DRAGONS!

Abide,
Abide,
Abide,
Abide,
Abide,
Abide,
Abide,
Abide,
Abide,

Xfactor

phoneix

I think “Malarkey” too would be a great word. We sure hear a lot of it this year.

twinkie.

How about ‘Fiscal Cliff’?

GANGDAM STYLE!!

Bifurcation

Meme. So few people know what it really means, they think every captioned photoshopped picture they see is a “meme”.

I think that the word of the year should be:

exquisit

1.millitary
2.missiles
3.warships
4.submarine
5.nuclear

I think DOOMED would be a great word to wrap up the year with.

MALARKEY!!!

Epicenter… Because the chaos, mega information and lack thereof, and the upheaval and it’s increased frequency , like a woman in labor pains ready to give birth, is honing in to an event which has great significance for us all, wonderful for some, fearful and dreadful for others, those looking forward to the promised event,”birth”, are full of Hope and expectation, Those who have not wisely reconciled their lives/debts are fearful and looking for somewhere/one to blame and to hide their many compromises and self-deceptions so they must cover their tracks with an alternate non truth & try to abort the Truth. But Truth is powerful simply because it’s reality and those trying to destroy it only harm themselves…it’s like saying there is no cliff when there is and they continue to move forward over the cliff all the while denying it’s happening.

the word of the year should be DERP
because this year so many things FAILED

I have to agree with one person. It should be Catawampus. That or Predicament.

YOLO

supercalafragilisticexpialadocious

This word describes so much of this last years war, politics and education cost increases……SUPERFLUOUS!

I think the word of 2012 should be Extraordinary!

Defy.

Or a word along those lines.
This is because this year the EARTH have defied the so called apocalypse that should have had warning signs by now. Athletes all over the world have defied the set records at the Olympics and have surprised a whole lot of us! Scientists have defied the conventions of science and split the atom…. the list goes on…

Sandy

i think that the word of the year should be…..swag, pudding or……………… DOOMED
jk guys

I vote for YOLO. The phrase “you only live once” has been around forever, but young people are really using “yolo” a lot. I have a 21 year old son, and he and his friends seem to live by “yolo.” This generation of young adults does not seem to feel that the traditional American Dream will ever be in their grasp, so they are more hedonistic than previous generations. That is a bit disturbing to me, but on the other hand, they do what makes them happy, so they do seem to be happy with their lives.

Be bold! Invent a word for one of the most viral phenoms of the year: McKayla Maroney’s smirk. Even President Obama is doing it. I vote for mckayla(ism) (noun, adjective) – an expression that one is not impressed. “I am so mckayla with my football team this year.”

Higgs-Boson

yolo yolo yolo yolo yolo yolo yolo yolo yolo yolo yolo yolo

Hello Dictionary.com! I think the 2012 Word of the Year should be: HEFFALUMP… It’s from A.A. Milne from the old-school Winnie-the-Pooh stories. It means: A child’s term for an elephant. I HOPE YOU PICK MY WORD!!!!!!

GOD

kerfuffle defines exactly what 2012 has been a…. chaotic,confusing, tumultuous, loud,pandemonius hurricane of of a year .
Yes, definitely kerfuffle!

narcissism

Defenestration, infinite, reverberate, indivisible, incognito, inconspicuous, Higgs-boson, subatomic, Fibonacci, Illuminati

Higgs boson

prestidigitation, superPac, sequestration are my choices for word of the year. Any one of them would be acceptable.

I think that the word should be alacritous. It means fast and is rarely used

I live in Colorado and was evacuated from the Waldo Canyon Fire. For us, the word INFERNO perfectly describes the year. Not just the blazes that destroyed our neighborhood, but also the overall climate of the country….

Massive heat waves across the nation, the fires in so many states (including the fires resulting from Sandy), and the general attitude in one of the hottest presidential races in our history…..the anger that arose from that….. yes, to me, INFERNO perfectly describes the year 2012.

Congealed, anticlimactic or Carbod dioxide

Hi to all! The word of the year, heard every day in national news and now all over town, is “WHEELHOUSE.” (I don’t know exactly who started it…just that everyone was using it, suddenly, and still is.) It seems like it was spoken by someone influential (during the Presidential campaigns; perhaps by a campaign manager or even the President!) “Wheelhouse” then took off like a F1 car at LeMans. Not the sexiest word, true. However, I think it was so present on the national scene and then quickly entered everyday American vernacular. Isn’t that partly grounds for being named “Word of the Year?” Additionally, I am thinking that “wheelhouse” is the “Word of the Year” due to these factors: it was actually old and staid – but now wildly trendy (and that is so interesting! Fascinating, really.) The word “wheelhouse” made such an impact. It became influential. It spread from the White House to all of our houses. It is currently used by people in every walk of life, in different environments and scenarios. “Wheelhouse” is a buzzword that cropped up suddenly but seems to have real staying power. To me, “wheelhouse” IS the phenom of 2012. I believe there is no contest, really. (Pick me, pick me! ) Thank you all! This is a cool contest and was fun to enter. (I love Dictionary.com btw. You are my home page.) All the best, Kris Bass Malloy

A word for a shift in power, but I’m not sure what that’d be.

Either TRILL, RACHET, or HYPEBEAST

antidisestablishmentarianism

Hippopotomonstrosisquippedaliaphobia
that means the fear of long words i memorized how to spell it when i was 11

popcorn

arithmetic

how about two words: bumfuddled discombobulated!! That is what life is becoming!!

Gangnam should be the 2012 word of the year because it already has 800 MILLION views on youtube and counting. But even knowong it is not a word I think it should be because there is nobody who has not seen and if you have not got to YOUTUBE.com and type in GANGNAM STYLE

I think the word should be Cloroflourocarbons because it has to do with types of polution. And isn’t polution what we are facing in 2012? Also it is kind of fun to say.

I describe somebody recently who is quite horrid……An infandous mythomaniac with a behemoth mouth

i think the word of the year should be kakkorhaphiophobia. it is the fear of faliure.

I think the word of the year should be Romnesia.

ROMNESIA

The word should definitely be YOLO, because we all now that now she want a photo, we already know though, that you only live once. That’s the motto people, YOLO.

Prestidigitation

Mendacious, for sure. It was all anyone could talk about

Romnesia should be the word of the year. We sure had enough of it going around.

I think the word of the year should be Democracy, Democratic or OBAMA!!!

or Awesomeness

SWAG all the way!

Grindstone

Epilogue. Quite a few important things ended in 2012, as well as the world, according to the Mayans.
So, yeah, 2012 is an epilogue.

higgs-boson

The word should be YOLO.

Romnesia

I think the word of the year should be horror, horrible, or something along that line. Considering all the bad things that have happened in 2012.

I think the word of the year 2012 should be one of these….
Freedom
election
Sandy
Debt
financial issues
money
deprivation
poverty
economy.
world
hunger
love

it should totally be exhausapated

WICKED

Socialmedia

mudsling

Frolic!

obamanable- a condition that goes from bad to worse by deliberate choice

Defunct. Because our world is becoming less and less functioning.

peasant

No actually it’s “meme”.

Definitely troll.

Achievement

This year has been such an achievement.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
STUFF
Superstition, stereotypical, fear, psychic, Mayan, calender, crisis, end-of-the-world, fake, misread, history, sensitivity, economic, economy, misfortune, junk, galactic, interpretation, misinterpretation, space, closed, placid, acid, vibrissa, vibrant, plain, unvarying, love, hate, death, suicide, drug, animals, unity, peace, war, nuclear, warnings, signs, spare, wary, beware, aware, unaware, conspiracy, unfairness, fairness, rights, racism, prejudice, unwelcome, welcome, Sandy, superstorm, Global Warmi think the word of the year should be Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, because it is a long random word with no true meaning and to me and my family that is how this year has gone long and meaningless.
Read more at http://hotword.dictionary.com/2012woty/#PzcQ0ATW6ku1w7se.99 inSecession2012 word of the year : Legit.
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Nullification

Legalization

All great words that end up promoting freedom and liberty – something this country desperately needs more of.

Read more at http://hotword.dictionary.com/2012woty/#PzcQ0ATW6ku1w7se.99 g, pollution, glacial melting, glacial, melting, heat, Climate Change, magnetic, changes, North, South, technology, failure, revolutionary
Read more at http://hotword.dictionary.com/2012woty/#PzcQ0ATW6ku1w7se.99 (putnam)Forward.How about “irrelevant.”one word could possibly win…

APOCALYPSE

i think it should be…

DELANEY

Peroration is my word.

Ithink the word of the year should be…. YOUR MOM

I believe the word of the year should be HOPE. HOPE is the only thing that can’t be taken from us. HOPE has pulled us through difficult times before and it always will, which is why I believe it should be the word of the year.

vapid, as in “With the continued vapid leadership I see no solution in sight to the mounting debt and deficit.”

pseudoapocolyptic

TREASON!!!

malarkey

Anachronism
It seems that now every thing is old after it’s been in existence for a month, so I think that this would be a greatword for the year.

Morbid? Because it was speculated as the end of the world?

Presidential? Because there was a presidential election that sparked the creation of 2 dishes?

Awful? Because it is awfully boring?

Sleepy? Because it causes me to sleep more than usual.

the word should be bob or maybe something bigger like anthropomorphism

swag

word of the year mmmmmmmmm Hakuna Matata

THe disaster year

Malakie….lol….

I think it should be GANGNAM STYLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Twinkies.

Apathetic

“Lallapalooza” – Word of the year 2012

It’s should be hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. It’s just one of those words which shouldn’t be here but gives us a laugh anyway.

KHARKU , it is Punjabi language word, it means revolutionary in English.

Serendipity. I’ve always been a fan of this word.

supercalifragilisticexpeealidocus

naah, not all those other words.
It should be ‘MAINSTREAM’ or ‘SWAG’ or ‘UBER’

MAINSTREAM or DOPE or SWAG or UBER or YOLO or YODO (you only die once) .

Hypocrisy

RATCHET!

Secession.

People in all fifty states are preposing to separate they’re state from the United States of America. (To form a new country.)
Even if it doesn’t work out, they are making a statement. they are unhappy with how this country is being run.

FRITTER!!!!!
OR A VARRIATION
EG.
FRITTAH
FRIATIT
FRITFRIT
FRITFRAT

pococurante!!!

I concuer with DDictionary

Surely the word of the year should be “Jubilympics”? How many times does the combination of the Queen’s Jubilee and the London Olympics occur in the same year? If a year is going to be defined in one word then Jubilympics has to be it.

yes i believe fritter is the ideal word to describe the state of the union as well as the state of the global community. We are terribly lacking in fritters at the moment, and this is creating negative unforseen consequences on our global politics and economy, notably seen in the rising inequality over the past decade. If the United States encouraged frittering, many of our poverty and inequality problems would be solved, and we would be a positive role model for the world to follow. Fritters have so much untapped potential, it is time for the world to realize this.

I think that the 2012 word of the year should be Oppa Gangnam Style

Or #hashtag

I believe that the 2012 Word of the Year should be Aladeen. Aladeen, from the movie, “The Dictator” is anything and everything. Aladeen means good and bad, happy and sad, and even love and hate. To say, “The government is very aladeen,” could mean that the government is great or terrible. Aladeen is the perfect word to sum up the entire 2012 year.

Insecurity

I believe that the word of the year should be, President, and or elections. Not only did we have people debating on social networking sites about who’d be a better president. We did have elections. The battle between Romney and Obama was very exciting. I was on my toes the whole time, and I heard president a lot over the past year. The buzz about this election year was pretty high. So my thoughts on the word of the year would be President.

( P.S. I am very happy with Obama being president. )

Verisimilitude

olympics

I think the word to describe the year 2012 would be horrendous mainly in america because the goverment was terrible

No wait for the whole year all around the world it should be interesting because the year was very interesting.

‘OMNISHAMBLES’ describing the politics in Southern Africa!

[...] Question of the day: What should the word of the year be? [...]

Is it possible to find out the most common searched word? If so it should be the most common searched word.

quagmire

eastwooding

i thnk it shuld b yoloquacoiswag
cuz you love once to do all yo talkn and be swagged out so there it is?>>><3<3,<3<##<3<3,33,#,#,#?,3<3?<

figglebustaa

Random

Advanced should be the word of the year, even though it is not that fancy, it perfectly describes what is going on in the US, the USA is advancing to fast, along with the rest of the word.

Word of the year: and

Simulacrum
Quagmire
Impasse
Internecine
Textonym

The 2012 word of the year should be: (Obama)

tran·scend (trn-snd)
Because good will prevail, despite the machinations of evil.

v. tran·scend·ed, tran·scend·ing, tran·scends
v.tr.
1. To pass beyond the limits of: emotions that transcend understanding.
2. To be greater than, as in intensity or power; surpass: love that transcends infatuation.
3. To exist above and independent of (material experience or the universe): “One never can see the thing in itself, because the mind does not transcend phenomena” (Hilaire Belloc).
v.intr.
To be transcendent; excel.

DYSTOPIA DYSTOPIA DYSTOPIA DYSTOPIA DYSTOPIA DYSTOPIA

#RATCHET

#YOLO

#SWAG

#TAKEYOURPICK2012

My choice of Word of the Year (2012) : “cliff-hanger”= n. 1. a situation of great suspense occurring usually at the end of a chapter in a book, scene in a film, or episode in a serial. 2. a serial in which each episode ends in suspense. 3. a situation, as in a competition or election, in which the outcome is uncertain until the very end. (Reader’s Digest Universal Dictionary)

Word for 2012: dumbed-down

As one who lives in one of the “battleground states,” and having been subjected to the most expensive barrage of mudslinging television commercials since March, I believe the word of the year should be “obfuscate.”

Would “fiscal cliff” qualify, as the term consist of two words, not one (but it is one concept)?

sorry for writing that

somniferous

Incomprehensible!!!

aha

Hecatomb, it’s sad but true

It should be somethinng that describes an issue in the world today like, hecatomb

My Choices:
Twitter
Facebook
forgetable
dumb
LONG
boring
Trey Songz
I have nothing else to say. OH wait yes i do!
HIIIII

-Nikki

Voice.
Since it is an election year, this year’s word should be voice because it runs with the theme and also helps to understand what a voice is.

I support with strong fervor that the 2012 word of the year should be
#SWAG#GANSTA#YOLO#GANGNAMSTYLE#TROLOLOL#GANSTASWAG#SWAGYOLO#HASHTAG#GANGNAMSTYLEISTEHBESTTHINGEVAH!!!#LOL#OMFG#ROTFL#WTFLOLROFLCOPTER#BEASTYBOYS#ONEDIRECTIONSUCKS#PSI#PSIISINFINITELYBETTERTHANONEDIRECTION#BITCHESBESNITCHS#YOLOBRAH#IGOTSTOTESGANGSTASWAG#CHOLOYOLO#YOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Evince

Sequestration – the technical term for the “fiscal cliff”. Looks like it will happen as of today.

…btw, the word of the year is usually something relavent to current events or has become widespread in media usage. some of these suggestions are just bombastic words.

The word should be opulent or transient because that is what the year was like.

Coin one–”MAYASMA ATTACK…!”

We had some special events this year–

1. NASA’s Thor’s Day 12-20-2012 Asteroid Strike Day–Bring your own hammer, (NASA is ‘different’ that way)…

2. And NASA Mars just got ‘popadopulated’–(See my youtube video of Mars Zoo–30 images of geologically recent fish, eels, reptiles and mammals, dinosaurs and humans…);

3. And NASA went “Johnson Style”–(another youtube take on Psy’s “Gangnam Style”)…

So–2012 was a tie between Gangnam Style, and NASA…

Well said Ray!

all of those things crak me up o wiat they wake me up lol
i know iknow thats not funny

lol