Irish Examiner view: New words degrade our shared language

This year's Collins Dictionary additions include NFT, cheugy, and pingdemic

Poet Laureate Seamus Heaney in 2006: Would hardly approve of such a degradation of our language. Picture: Niall Carson/PA.

It should be enhancing when new words enter the vocabulary and it is enjoyable when they enrich us with their sound and beauty. And their clarity, that being the main characteristic required to assist communication.

Sad to say, therefore, that this year’s selections of additions to the Collins English Dictionary fall short on several counts.