Forget youthquake: here are the real words of the year | Martin Kelner
by Martin Kelner from on (#3B15T)
Oxford Dictionaries' word of 2017 is hardly earth-shaking. But instead of being broflakes, let's join in on the fun
Casper Grathwohl has the rather fine title of president of dictionaries at Oxford University Press, so it was he who chose the much-discussed but rarely used "youthquake" as 2017 word of the year, over some other equally unlikely suggestions. I only mention that in case, in skimming over the story at this busy time of the year, you read Grathwohl alongside Antifa, gorpcore and broflake, and assumed it was one of the contenders.
Why not? The Microsoft spellchecker puts the same wobbly line under youthquake and the rest of Casper's shortlist as it does under his name, meaning it's not just the man on the Leeds omnibus (me) scratching his head over El Presidente's selection.
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