Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year
Committee's Choice and People's Choice announced!
Posted on 22 January 2018
People's Choice
The People's Choice for the 2017 Word of the Year is framily. Honourable mentions go to endling and text neck.
Committee's Choice
The Committee's Choice for the 2017 Word of the Year is milkshake duck. Honourable mentions go to endling and framily. You can see a full list of the finalists below.
You can find out more about how and why this word was chosen on our news page.
Shortlist
The Committee's top 15 are as below.
Download the Committee's Choice Top 15 as a PDF or images.
You can also access a longer list of 75 words that the Committee whittled down here.
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