Word for Word #19 Word of the Year 2017

Additional links
Why ‘milkshake duck’ is the perfect choice for word of the year
'Youthquake' named 2017 word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries
Wu Yongning: Who is to blame for a daredevil's death?
On the Macquarie Dictionary blog:
Read the Word of the Year 2017 shortlist
Committee's Choice and People's Choice announced!
The Committee's Choice for Word of the Year 2017 goes to...
Why the Word of the Year is made up of two other words
Acknowledgements
Word for Word is produced by Kate Sherington for Macquarie Dictionary and Pan Macmillan Australia.
Thanks in this episode to the entire Word of the Year committee: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki; Susan Butler, Tiger Webb: Dr Michael Spence; Prof Stephen Garton; Anne Bell.
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