{"id":60,"date":"2025-12-16T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lc-student-news\/?p=60"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:00:26","slug":"word-of-the-year-bbc-news-interview-with-dr-laura-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lc-student-news\/2025\/12\/16\/word-of-the-year-bbc-news-interview-with-dr-laura-bailey\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Year! \u2013 BBC News Interview with Dr Laura Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Language Centre Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/language-centre\/people\/5379\/bailey-laura\">Dr Laura Bailey<\/a>,\u00a0was recently on the\u00a0BBC\u00a0News\u00a0talking\u00a0about this\u00a0year&#8217;s\u00a0Word of the\u00a0Year\u00a0\u2018Rage Bait\u2019,\u00a0which\u00a0has recently been\u00a0unveiled by the\u00a0Oxford Dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0word\u00a0of the year\u00a0is not just\u00a0a new or\u00a0frequently\u00a0used word\u00a0selected by the Oxford\u00a0Dictionary but is\u00a0voted on by the public.\u00a0\u00a0Laura touches upon the evolution of language and the creativity and development of\u00a0new words\u00a0and their meanings. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/creativity-culture-and-heritage\/37502\/word-of-the-year-rage-bait\">here<\/a> to find out more about this year&#8217;s Word of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>You can also click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/corp.oup.com\/word-of-the-year\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0to find out more about the Word of the Year with Oxford University\u00a0Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Language Centre Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics,\u00a0Dr Laura Bailey,\u00a0was recently on the\u00a0BBC\u00a0News\u00a0talking\u00a0about this\u00a0year&#8217;s\u00a0Word of the\u00a0Year\u00a0\u2018Rage Bait\u2019,\u00a0which\u00a0has recently been\u00a0unveiled by the\u00a0Oxford Dictionary. The\u00a0word\u00a0of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lc-student-news\/2025\/12\/16\/word-of-the-year-bbc-news-interview-with-dr-laura-bailey\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74978,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[978,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lc-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lc-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lc-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lc-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lc-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lc-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lc-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lc-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lc-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lc-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lc-student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}