Youthquake ?

[mikey4444]

According the BBC this morning and my Guardian today, "Youthquake" has been selected by Oxford Dictionaries, as the word of the year, for 2017.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/15/youthquake-named-2017-word-of-the-year-by-oxford-dictionaries

Hands up those of you who had ever heard of tis word until today ?

[Cloverjo]

No, nor have a heard any of the other short-listed terms.

[Cloverjo]

I, not a....

[emmie]

nope

[mikey4444]

Thought it was just me Jo !

[emmie]

youthquake, another word for a rumble...

[Jackdaw33]

"According the BBC this morning and my Guardian today..."

Says it all, really.

[goodgoalie]

Mikey - you can afford a Guardian?!

[mikey4444]

Jack...lol !

But its Oxford Dictionaries that have chosen the word, not the "lefty" BBC or the "lefty" Guardian.

[mikey4444]

GG...not every day !

[Mamyalynne]

If you don't like the source try here,


https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2017

[goodgoalie]

I should think not, Mikey, not at £2 a go! Do you know it's going tabloid in January? All that money wasted on special 'Berliner' presses!

[Mamyalynne]

It hadn't really registered on my radar, when the youth descend here it's more of a tornado.

[mikey4444]

GG...yes, dreading it, of course. Its taken me years to get used to the Berliner and now they are changing again. I have been reading The Guardian for over 40 years now

Araucaria must be turning in his grave !

Lets hope it survives, as British Newspapers really don't have a very good record when it comes to the change to a Tabloid.

[Jackdaw33]

It's been tabloid for years. The only broadsheet you can get these days is the Telegraph, thank God!

[mikey4444]

Jack....I take it then, that you have no idea of what "Berliner" means, as regards newspapers ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_(format)

[Jackdaw33]

Never heard of it to be quite honest, although it will come as no surprise to you when I tell you that I hardly buy it on a regular basis. I find Andrex quilted much kinder to my bottom.

[Baldric]

I was about to answer the OP, but it seems to have nitpickingly gone off topic I won't bother.

[Mamyalynne]

I was interested enough to do a little research into another front runner - Milkshake Duck.

How these come about is sometimes quite enlightening.

[pastafreak]

Before I even got to the mention of Diana Vreeland in the '60s, I was thinking there was nothing new about youthquake and its meaning. The youth have been doing it for decades.