"Youthquake" is the verbal concoction recently declared Word of the Year (the year being 2017) by the experts at Oxford Dictionaries.
'Fake news' has been declared word of the year.
If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family" From Your Best Life Now, p.132.
Then in the same year, Oxford Dictionaries Online declared the word "selfie" its Word of the Year.
"I am delighted with the film and am now convinced that only through the medium of the talking picture art could this delicious fantasy be faithfully interpreted," she declared, her words possibly burnished by a Paramount publicist.
"This looks fantastic, don't you think?" Ms. Patrizi declared, her words and tone instantly identifying her as a member of the fashion pack, which this season has decreed that equestrian style is the last word in urban chic.
He revelled in colossal statues, erecting more than any other Egyptian king, and it was he who had declared, in words less rhythmical than Shelley made them, "Should any man seek to know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my works".As it happened, as Shelley and Smith were scribbling their competing sonnets, Ramesses II was on his way to London.
Richard Wolff declared these words at Riverside Church on January 22 , 2012
Australia's ABC Radio National declared 50 Words for Snow album of the week of 12 November 2011.
Klein declared, her words simulcast into five languages, "This is a historic meeting.
