Posted on 11/19/2022 8:57:05 AM PST by Saije
With 2022 coming to an end, the Cambridge Dictionary team has announced their Word of the Year for 2022. And it is 'homer', which is described as "short for home run : a point scored in baseball when you hit the ball, usually out of the playing field, and are able to run around all the bases at one time to the starting base," as per Cambridge Dictionary. Homer was the top searched word on Cambridge Dictionary in 2022. "It was looked up more than 79,000 times this year, and an amazing 65,401 of those views happened on May 5," reads a statement on their official blog. The reason: When homer was the answer for May 5's contest on Wordle, a famous online word game, many Americans instanstly guessed the word. However, many Wordle players outside of the US couldn't guess the word right and so they searched up the word online, including Cambridge Dictionary!
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Other five-letter words that were Wordle answers and also searched many times in 2022 were humor (the American English spelling of humour), caulk, tacit, and bayou. This sudden increase in people looking up a word due to Wordle is often called the "Wordle Effect".
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Leaving that game aside, I think word of the year could be inflation or woke or crypto?
What,it’s not “ExtremeMAGA”????
That’s good, I didn’t think of that.
I would have voted for “fraud”.
After all, Biden is a fraud. Climate Change is a fraud. And of course we saw lots of voter fraud.
Marge would be proud.
Plato thinks Homer is vastly overrated.
My Dad grew up in the 1920s, and he and his friends all used that word.
Johnny Most was a homer.
I played Wordle for a while, but found it tedious. Then one day, I wrote an Octave (freeware version of matlab) script to play it, a task which took about two hours. It was running slow, (about two minutes for the second guess) so I sped it up with some obvious fixes. Then I made one-more-tweak and broke it. I tried to fix it, but my heart wasn’t in it. Then, after a few weeks, I went back and started over, this time in about eight hours I got a much cleaner and faster version, that only takes about five seconds to come up with the second guess, less thereafter. Median solution is three guesses, and it’s never gone longer than five. Kinda fun.
About This Work
The Iliad, a major founding work of European literature, is usually dated to around the 8th century BC, and attributed to Homer. It is an epic poem, written in Ancient Greek but assumed to be derived from earlier oral sources, and tells much of the story of the legendary Trojan War between mainland Greece and the city of Troy in Asia Minor. The cultural background to the poem indicates a Bronze Age setting around 400 to 500 years before the Homeric literary period itself. The poem itself centres on the figure of Achilles the Greek warrior, his quarrel with King Agamemnon the Greek leader, the death of Achilles’ friend Patroclus, and Achilles’ ultimate defeat of the Trojan warrior Hector. In the course of relating this core story, the main events of the whole war are covered. The quality of the writing, the thoughtful treatment of warfare, and the thematic interest of the material have made the Iliad the most influential early work of Western literature, certainly from the time of the Renaissance onwards. Modern archaeological investigation has substantiated Homer’s account of Troy’s location and importance, and many of the details of the Bronze Age culture he describes, giving some historical credibility to the original legends he utilised.
About the Author About This Work
The true authorship and dating of the Iliad and the other great poem attributed to Homer, the Odyssey, has been much disputed. The consistency of language and treatment lends itself to the view that a single author Homer created, or at least consolidated and edited, the literary material. This was the view of ancient Greek authorities, though they differ widely on the question of who Homer was, and at what period he lived. Many mythical elements gathered around the name Homer, until the image of a blind bard from the island of Chios gained prominence, despite there being no evidence of his blindness or his bardic wanderings, and despite many places claiming to have been his birthplace or residence. Equally there is no absolutely definitive text rather the currently accepted text is the result of the work of many editors over a long period of time, from at least the 3rd century BC to modern times. There is much fascinating and erudite scholarship concerning the Homeric ethos, involving literary, linguistic, cultural, archaeological, and other evidence, and debate is ongoing. However the issue of literary authorship in no way detracts from the power and integrity of the epic poems themselves.
Sources: Wikipedia & Homer: The Iliad
FTA: ...May 5’s contest on Wordle, a famous online word game....
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I was looking up a word yesterday totally unrelated to Wordle. On the right side of the page was a list of trending words that had been searched. The word at the top of the list was “glyph,” which was yesterday’s Wordle answer.
“I saw the word and immediately thought...Simpson”
It means Wordle has a high proportion of players that speak English as a second language or do not not live in the Western hemisphere.
My daughter in law struck the word today on the first try. I told her to get a lottery ticket,my wife and I got the word in the third try.
We play and share, it is a fun way to start the morning. The game is well designed because usually players do get the word before the alloted 6 tries.
Don’t get the sense old Homer is selling many (Home Depot equivalent) burgers these days.
Home Depot is usually pretty “hopping” though, so maybe Homer’s busy behind the scenes....
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