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The word of the year doesn’t need to be the most common, nor the one that appeared this very year, although both things count for the feeling of signifiacnce of words and concepts. It is about such a word or concept (an event, an object or a thought) which we feel we could treat as most important. We want to choose a word of this kind from among the breakdowns of the words of the day. Also other words can be proposed, however, provided they are common nouns (no names of people, places, societies or organisations are allowed), adjectives, verbs or other parts of speech. Also short expressions and phrases are accepted. You may also want to inspire yourself with our words of the week, published on our website already for a few months, and with words of the month, also published on a regular basis.WIĘCEJ

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PARABANK – the word of the year 2012 The jury composed of prof. Jerzy Bralczyk, prof. Andrzej Markowski and prof. Walery Pisarek chose for the second time the word of the year in the plebiscite organised by the Institute of Polish Language. In 2012 the awarded word is PARABANK (lit. a shadow banking system or a part of it, an institution similar to a bank). Other honoured words were (in alphabetical order): KRYZYS (crisis), LEMING (lemming), MINISTRA (ministress; a neologism for woman-minister), TROTYL (TNT) and ZAMACH (assassination attempt). The jury chose from among proposals submitted by students of the University of Warsaw and other participants of the internet plebiscite announced on University websites, as well as from among statistically most popular words appearing in four daily newspapers. These words were published every day in the Internet (http://slowanaczasie.uw.edu.pl, http://nkjp.uni.lodz.pl/WordsOfDay). This word is new in a sense, yet it triggered (or strengthened)WIĘCEJ

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Web surfers chose the word separatysta. As a result of the internet plebiscite, organised in collaboration with the National Centre for Culture, the noun separatysta (Eng. ‘separatist’) was chosen the word of the year (formerly also chosen the word of April), winning almost half of the votes. Porf. Jerzy Bartmiński’s comment. Two other words with next best results were: kilometrówka (English ‘mileage’, the world of April) and aneksja (English ‘annexation’, the word of March). The proposals of the web surfers for the word of the year were also the following words and expressions: wybory (sfałszowane), selfie, oznaczyć, tagi and otagowany post, masakra, beka, Pendolino, lol, szczujnia, bynajmniej, zielone ludziki, uprzejmi ludzie, święty, zapitka, twitteromania, target, studniówka, system wyborczy, smartfon, przewodniczący, projekt, odejście, bezglutenowy, narracja, lajki i lajkować, kredyt, kompromitacja, kobieta z brodą, klimat, klawo, instagram, gender, exit poll, embargo, epicki, dron, dodać, być eko, bieda, afera (taśmowa), Ukraina, Soczi, Krym.WIĘCEJ

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Kilometrówka (Eng. ‘mileage’) the word of the year 2014 according to the linguists’ jury votes. The jury of “The Word of the Year” composed of: Jerzy Bartmiński (UMCS), Jerzy Bralczyk (UW), Andrzej Markowski (UW), Walery Pisarek (UJPII), Renata Przybylska (UJ), Halina Zgółkowa (UAM), chose for the word of the year 2014 the word “kilkometrówka”. Second place, ex aequo, goes for: PROCEDURY, SELFIE, SEPARATYSTA[→], TAŚMA/TAŚMOWY [→], ZIELONE LUDZIKI [→]. Other nominees: ANEKSJA, ŁAZIK, PODSŁUCH, SZPICA. The web surfers’ plebiscite for the word of the year is running until 9.01. (23:39 CET) on the FB-page of the National Centre for Culture (https://www.facebook.com/jezykojczysty), as well as on our website http://www.slownaczasie.uw.edu.pl. Comments kilometrówka (Eng. ‘mileage’, a distance-based method of accounting expenses for business travels) the word ‘mileage’ has unfortunately dominated the Polish public discourse in past few months, thus marginalising other, far more important issues. (Jerzy Bartmiński) the word ‘mileage’ is not a newWIĘCEJ

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Gender – the word of the year 2013 After much deliberation and discussion, the jury, composed of professors of linguistics: Jerzy Bartmiński, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Jerzy Bralczyk, University of Warsaw, Andrzej Markowski, University of Warsaw, Jan Miodek, University of Wrocław, Walery Pisarek, Pontifical University of John Paul II, Renata Przybylska, Jagiellonian University, Halina Zgółkowa, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań [>>] made their choice. Other honoured words are: ekspert, Euromajdan, janosikowe, podsłuch, słoik, tęcza. The most repeated word in the Internet plebiscite was gender. The following words were also proposed (in order of submitting):tęcza, Franciszek, kibol, ekspert, Euromajdan (EuroMajdan, Majdan Europejski), słoik, projekt, orkan, naród, miłość, kryzys, jakby, związki partnerskie, zboczeniec,  zamach, węgiel, wykluczenie, wiśnia, weganizm, szczaw i mirabelki, referendum 6 latków, przeciek, porażka, po prostu, pedofilia, papież, obłuda, młotek, majdan,  like, lew, leming, lapsus, konklawe, komisja,  jesteś cały?, janusze, innowacyjny, heca, grafen, genderyzm, epicki, dylemat, chrzan, brzoza, ateistyczneWIĘCEJ

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PREZYDENCJA (eng. presidency) – the word of the year 2011 The plebiscite for the word of the year 2011 organised by the Institute of Polish Language, University of Warsaw, was settled. The title of the word of the year goes to prezydencja (presidency), the second place goes to kryzys (crisis), the third place ex aequo goes to katastrofa (catastrophe) and krzyż (cross). The jury composed of professors: Jerzy Bralczyk, Andrzej Markowski ans Walery Pisarek have chosen the most significant words of the past year, guided not only by their sensibility, but also by the proposals submitted through the Internet, as well as by the daily breakdowns of the words of the day – the keywords from press, published by the Institute of Polish Language. Here are the results and the comments of the jury. The word of the year: PREZYDENCJA (presidency) “A motivation for the choice of the word ofWIĘCEJ