It's the time of year every word nerd worth their salt is salivating madly, with words of the year starting to come fast and furious. This word nerd missed one already, but she's had other things on her mind.

That missed one was Dictionary.com's 67 (pronounced six seven, not sixty-seven), which is a nonsense phrase kids started using this year. I was rolling my eyes over the fracas over it, and then some Internet wit in one of the Facebook groups I belong to, having to do with Douglas Adams and a certain well-known book of his, noted that six multiplied by seven equals 42, which we know is the meaning of life.

Yeah, I'm a science-fiction nerd too. Deal with it.

And now comes the Oxford Languages Word of the Year for 2025: rage-bait. Rage-bait, according to Oxford, is "online content del

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