“War” was chosen as the word of the year for 2022, the year of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which started the biggest military conflict in Europe since World War II.
With 53% of the vote, according to Porto Editora (PE), the term was chosen “with the highest percentage of votes ever”.
The second most voted word was “inflation”, with 18.8%, and the third was “emergency”, which won with 6.6%.
Behind are the words “queen”, “energy” and “drought” at 5.3%, 4.8% and 3.9% respectively. At No. 7 was “Abuse” (2.2%), followed by “Cyber Attack” (2%), “Nuclear” (1.7%) and “Interest” (1.7%).
This is the 14th edition of the Word of the Year and poll reality It took place from December 1st to 31st last year. According to data sent to PE SAPO24It received votes from over 36,000 internet users.
According to the editorial board, The Word of the Year selection “reflects key events and collective concerns that will mark 2022”.
The “battle” won the “vaccine” of choice in 2021.
The PE initiative started in 2009 and the “study” was successful. The following year, the winner was “vuvuzela”, in 2011, “thrift”, in 2012 “entroikado”, in 2013, “firefighter”. In 2014, the winner was “Corruption”, in 2015 “Refugee”, in 2016, “Contradiction”. In 2017, “Fire”. In 2018, “Nurse”, in 2019, “Domestic Violence” and, in 2020, “Vaccine”.
Throughout the month of January, Mozambicans can vote for the word of the year by choosing between “absconding”, “criminals”, “security”, “fraud”, “strike”, “trafficking”, “salary”, “sealing”. “Accidents” and “Suffocation”.
Election results in Angola will be released by the end of this month by the majority authorities. Vote “Agriculture”, “Basic Basket”, “Crime”, “Inflation”, “Garbage”, “Protest”, “Privatisation”, “Drought”, “Vaccine” and “Sunguera”.
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