‘Word of year’ choice sparked by Wordle

THE Cambridge Dictionary has revealed its word of the year for 2022 as “homer”, with editors crediting disgruntled Wordle players whose winning streak was ended by the unfamiliar American English term. Homer, a slang US word for a home run in baseball, was searched for nearly 75,000 times during the first week of May when it was an answer in the online five-letter word puzzle. It became the dictionary’s highest-spiking word of the year.