Last week, the American Dialect Society announced the results of its vote for 2022’s Word of the Year. This time, the society went slang-esoteric — 2020’s “covid” and 2021’s all-too-necessary “insurrection” were succeeded by the suffix “-ussy,” which I have never heard in the wild and, uh, shall decline to explain in a family newspaper.
OpinionWhy the scary, funny, profane ‘FAFO’ was 2022’s word of the year
By Amanda Katz
January 17, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EST