It is time to start using the new words added to dictionaries in 2024. I bet we forgot to find out what they are. I expect we didn't pay attention to some of last year's words: girl dinner (attractively presented collection or snacks that involve little preparation, deemed sufficient for a meal for one), bed rotting (many hours in bed during the day), or enshitification (gradual decline of an online platform service's functionality). The Time list for 2024 words is HERE.
We will get the new words for 2025 in the coming few weeks - 224's was in February last year. The word world is very active. I see that there's a new word for this month - January brain: a feeling of tiredness and a lack of energy and motivation that some people experience when they go back to work in the new year after the Christmas holidays.
Here's another for this time of year: winter arc. It is a trend that involves spending the whole winter season making lifestyle changes relating to your physical and mental health and wellbeing, such as breaking bad habits and exercising more.
I think we already know this one: Quitter's Day: the second Friday of January, the day when most people abandon their New Year’s resolutions and go back to their old habits. According to Forbes Health, 62% of us never even wanted to make a new year's resolution in the first place.
There's a a new word feed email service. Vocabulary.com's word is fuselage, The New York Times has actuarial, and Merriam-Webster has Gelid (extremely cold or icy). Dictionary.comhas this word: abstergent (cleansing).
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