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Following Oxford‘s recent announcement of its Word of the Year (unfriend),  Merriam-Webster has revealed it own WOTY, which is based on actual lookups in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Online Thesaurus.  The word that received “the highest intensity of searches over the shortest period of time” is admonish.  Among other words in the top 10 list are  furlough, inaugurate, and pandemic, which says something about our preoccupations in 2009.

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