The folks at Mirriam Webster keep track of how many time words are looked up in their online dictionary. That, in turn, means that they can compare lookups this year with lookups last year and see which words have been naughty, and so get fewer lookups, and which have been nice, and get more lookups. Here's a list of the top ten nicest words, the ones with the greatest increase in lookups:
1. science – 1762. cognitive – 158%3. rapport – 145%4. communication – 139%5. niche – 138%6. ethic – 134%7. paradox – 130%8. visceral – 130%9. integrity – 127%10. metaphor – 124%
H/t Language Log; full article in Time: Word of the Year: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary's Choice Is 'Science'.
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