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YOU can tell what kind of 12 months it’s been when the dictionary people choose their words of the year.

The Australian English Macquarie Dictionary went with ‘enshittification’, a term coined by Canadian journalist and author Cory Doctorow which it explained as the “the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking.”