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Dissonance and polarization in 2024? Sounds about right

Dissonance and polarization in 2024? Sounds about right

by Sue Horner | Jan 13, 2025 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

The people who compile and edit dictionaries (lexicographers) and track word searches have spoken. After analyzing search engine results, newsworthy headlines, trends on social media and more, they identified the words that were on our lips, online and in the real...
It’s plain: You don’t need ‘stripes’ to show different ‘kinds’

It’s plain: You don’t need ‘stripes’ to show different ‘kinds’

by Sue Horner | Feb 15, 2024 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

Have you ever noticed that suddenly everyone seems to be using a particular word or phrase? “Upskilling” is having a moment, unfortunately. “Overarching” has staying power, also unfortunately. But the one I keep running into lately is “[people]...
AI and hallucinate top the 2023 Words of the Year

AI and hallucinate top the 2023 Words of the Year

by Sue Horner | Jan 12, 2024 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

Surprise! Artificial Intelligence (AI) dominated the range of important things, events, people and preoccupations we talked about in 2023. An article about ChatGPT led Wikipedia’s most-viewed entries and Google search data also showed plenty of hunts for AI and...
The poetic power of music (in November Wordnerdery)

The poetic power of music (in November Wordnerdery)

by Sue Horner | Nov 22, 2023 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

Do you pause what you’re doing for a moment of silence on Remembrance Day or Veterans Day? I do, and often turn on the radio (remember radio?) so as not to get caught up in work and miss 11 a.m. One year, the radio station introduced the moment, and then went...
ngl, some of these new words weren’t on my bingo card

ngl, some of these new words weren’t on my bingo card

by Sue Horner | Oct 4, 2023 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

The English language certainly never stands still, and dictionaries like Merriam-Webster do their best to keep up. Thus they officially admit new (or newish) words or new definitions to their ranks as people use them over time. As M-W says, “Signs of a healthy...
Kindness on social media? See it in links you might have missed, August edition

Kindness on social media? See it in links you might have missed, August edition

by Sue Horner | Aug 31, 2023 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

Kindness. Compassion. Respect. These aren’t necessarily words you associate with social media, are they? Surprise! They feature in my latest roundup of social media posts you might have missed, these specific to employee communication. I also found some interesting...
Kindness on social media? See it in links you might have missed, August edition

Thoughts on newsletters, print (!) and words; all in links you might have missed, March edition

by Sue Horner | Apr 19, 2023 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

This week saw more “churn” on Twitter as CEO Elon Musk branded Canada’s public broadcaster, CBC News, as “government-funded media.” This tag was originally intended to warn users about China’s state media, suggesting government involvement in the content, aka...
Gaslighting and goblin mode among the 2022 words of the year

Gaslighting and goblin mode among the 2022 words of the year

by Sue Horner | Jan 9, 2023 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

In 2022, we finally moved past the pandemic’s domination of the words people searched for online. We’re not out of the pandemic woods yet, of course, and we’re still talking about it. But we’re also looking up and talking about a range of other things going on in our...
Word choice, jargon and plain language in ICYMI, Sept. edition

Word choice, jargon and plain language in ICYMI, Sept. edition

by Sue Horner | Sep 19, 2022 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

You may or may not be on social media. Almost certainly, you aren’t seeing every interesting link that flashes past. So here are more links to helpful posts I’ve shared that you might have missed: Word choice “Don’t be mealy-mouthed about mortality,” says John...
New words are out (and pandemic ones finally slowing down)

New words are out (and pandemic ones finally slowing down)

by Sue Horner | Sep 12, 2022 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog

If it’s September, it must be time to add to the growing number of words and definitions admitted to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Dictionaries like M-W chronicle “how the language grows and changes,” admitting new words as people use them in the same way over a...
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