"Brain rot" Oxford Word of Year
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•Oxford University Press picks "brain rot" as word of the year. See the other finalists.
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"Brain rot" is Oxford dictionaries' word of the year .
Its frequency of use increased 230% from the year before .
The first recorded use of "brain rot" was by Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 ode to the natural world, " Walden ".
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