Fellow Word-Nerd @Faith_Salie thinks that #Grace should be the #WordOfTheYear | @Wikipedia @247WallSt #AmazingGrace #Gracious #Graceful #YourGrace #Gracefully

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And I agree, but (as shown by 'the fact that I didn't specify which year') I think it deserves that distinction most years!

'That word' (below-hyperlinked to a discussion about 'the reasons why it--instead of Vaccine or Vax--should be word-of-the-year' (on a forum where you can MAKE MONEY BY CONTRIBUTING)) is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...
The word “Grace” (the virtue, the gifting, AND the female proper name) is built on ancient words that mean "to Favor."
In the CBS Sunday Morning segment we discuss at the link-above, Faith also mentions a couple "Word of the Year"-list makers---Merriam-Webster (Vaccine, in 2021) & Oxford English Dictionary (Vax, in 2021). (Though I imagine those listers have been making those lists since time immemorial, the linked lists only go back to the early 'otts' ... maybe I'll find earlier lists elsewhere (maybe in what-we-used-to-call "books" ... 'ancient scrolls,' etc.)

Renewing my word-nerd membership 🤓, I'll list them here:

Starting with OED's list (which I suspect might not be 'from the actual list,' as the spell-check here isn't accepting some of them as "real words"): 
  • 2004, Chav; 2005, (US) Podcast, (UK) Sudoku; 2006, (US) Carbon-Neutral, (UK) Bovvered; 2007, (US) Locavore, (UK) Carbon Footprint; 2008, (US) Hypermilling, (UK) Credit Crunch; 2009, (US) Unfriend, (UK) Simples; 2010, (US) Refudiate (NOT "Repudiate"), (UK) Big Society; 2011, Squeezed Middle; 2012, (US) GIF, (UK) Omnishambles; 2013, Selfie; 
  • 2014, Vape; 2015, 😂 (tears-of-joy emoji); 2016, Post-Truth; 2017, Youthquake; 2018, Toxic; 2019, Climate Emergency; none for 2020 ("As our Word of the Year process started and this data was opened up, it quickly became apparent that 2020 is not a year that could neatly be accommodated in one single ‘word of the year’."); 2021, Vax
And the Merriam-Webster list (words chosen out of each years top-ten words, lists of which are found at the Merriam-Webster link):




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