Words at Play : Word of the Year Retrospective
With the announcement of our 2014 Word of the Year Culture and the 9 runners up, we were inspired to look back at our past Words of the Year to see what they tell us.
Big Data has never been a Word of the Year, but it's always lurking in the background: Rather than giving a list of the newest or hippest words, our selections are completely based on data from user lookups.
Read on to find out what we searched for most in each of the past 6 years, and find out what was happening in, well, the culture at large to drive those lookups.