How new words are born Andy Bodle in The Guardian 4ii16
Frankenwords: they're alive! But for how long? Andy Bodle in The Guardian 5ii16
Dictionaries of Neologisms: a Review and Proposals for its Improvement Alexandre RodrÃguez Guerra From the journal Open Linguistics
Social Networks of Lexical Innovation. Investigating the Social Dynamics of Diffusion of Neologisms on Twitter Quirin Würschinger
A Lexicon of Neologisms Mikhail Epstein
10 Neologisms of the 2010s Janet Barrow
10 Words Transformed by the 2010s Janet Barrow
New Words blog Cambridge University Press
Memes and Slang and Abbreviations from digitalcultures.net
The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era
I've been casting about to see what ideas are already out there. Suggestions I've found include the Terrible Twenties, the Long 2016, the Age of Emergency, Cold War II, the Omnishambles, the Great Burning, and the Assholocene. The novelist William Gibson coined "the Jackpot" in his 2014 novel The Peripheral for a near-future period of intersecting apocalyptic crises, when everything seems to be happening at once. In 2016, the scholar Donna Haraway deemed our time the Chthulucene, inspired by a word derived from ancient Greek, "chthonic"—of or relating to the muddy, messy, impenetrable underworld....the Age of Unhingement...
2023 WOTYs,stage 1 (Language Log)