Remember "cybernaut" or "stalkerazzo"?
Preply's latest study dives into 40 years of new dictionary words to find out which ones fizzled fast- and what that says about our ever-changing relationship to language.
Key takeaways
‘Stalkerazzo’, ‘declinist’, and ‘crybully’ are the top words that haven't stuck.
From the 2010s: ‘Sponcon’, ‘grammable’, and ‘bingeable’ didn’t stick
From the 2000s: ‘Defriend’, ‘tweetstorm’, and ‘fatberg’ didn’t stick
From the 1990s: ‘Stalkerazzo’, ‘crybully’, and ‘cyberspeak’ didn’t stick
From the 1980s: ‘Declinist’, ‘McJob’, and ‘cybernaut’ didn’t stick
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