EVENING NIGHTCAP: Sam + Playgirl = Easy Check. 2025 Wrap Up → Words Of The Year (vs. Mine).
► Various dictionary companies and platforms got together at their respective watering holes to reflect on 2025 and decide on the one word their organization selected that, "culture watchers say encapsulate the zeitgeist of 2025". Without further adieu, this is what each org selected as their winner, followed by mine. Read More Image: writerofwordsetc.substack.com Merriam Webster Dictionary: Slop. The fine folks at MW define it as "digital content of poor quality usually produced by AI". In the old days, slop was the word I would use to describe Tuesday's lunch at my elementary school cafeteria (shit on a shingle). Glassdoor.com: Fatigue. According to the job search site, "fatigue" was chosen because workers are tired. Duh..no shit. Collins Dictionary: Vibe Coding . This is defined as, "the use of natural language prompts to instruct AI to write computer code instead of writing it from scratch". In other words, lazy. Oxford Diction...