I'm an expert in slang - here are my picks for word of the year

As a linguist who specialises in tracking slang and language change, there's one holiday tradition I always look forward to: the annual selection of the word of the year.

Dictionary publishers and linguistics associations choose a word or expression - usually a new term or one that has taken on new meaning in the past year. Oxford Dictionaries describes it a word that reflects "the ethos, mood, or preoccupations