Microaggression is Top Word, Trump the Top Name, Migrant Crisis the Top Phrase for Worldwide English for 2015 | The Global Language Monitor

Microaggression is Top Word, Trump the Top Name, Migrant Crisis the Top Phrase for Worldwide English for 2015 | The Global Language Monitor





Top 2015: Documenting the year 2015 through English-language word usage



Worldwide English for 2015:

1. Microaggression is Top Word

2. Trump the Top Name

3. Migrant Crisis the Top Phrase



Microaggression is an academic term, related to the ‘white privilege’ movement that has moved into widespread circulation over the last generation.



Donald J Trump is the US presidential contender who appears to be re-writing the rules of American political decorum.



Migrant Crisis summarizes the movement of some one million migrants and/or refugees from the Middle East to Europe (predominately from Syria, Irag and , Afganistan), as well as North African countries. This is the largest human migration since World War II.



In 2014 the heart emoji was named the Top Word, the first time any emoji captured any Word of the Year honors.  The Oxford Dictionaries followed in 2015 by  naming the ‘laughing until tears of joy’ emoji as it top word of 2015, though there is scant evidence that any place on the planet was so afflicted.



“The English language continues its ever deeper penetration into global consciousness.  Some are wary of the consequences of a single language (of the 7,000 extant human tongues) dominating the Linguasphere.” said Paul JJ Payack, President and Chief Word Analyst of the Global Language Monitor.



“The English Language is continuing a remarkable transformation driven by new word formations not witnessed since the Bard created nearly 2000 new words during his lifetime (1564-1616)..."





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