Plastic Is Children's Word Of The Year: OUP

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    • Publish Date: Jun 7 2018 12:41PM
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    • Updated Date: Jun 7 2018 12:43PM
Plastic Is Children's Word Of The Year: OUP

Oxford University Press has declared Plastic as the children's word of the year as it is most commonly used by them, indicating that they are aware about the hazards of plastic pollution. 

How did they decide this? 
The Oxford University Press analysed short stories submitted to BBC Radio 2's 500 Words competition.

Popular words
Plastic, the ocean, Emmeline Pankhurst, Donald Trump, Brexit, Korea, Grenfell Tower, unicorns, slime and computer game Fortnite are some of the people and subjects that influence British children's creativity and use of language, says a report published today by Oxford University Press (OUP).

Significance
Plastic is the Oxford Children's Word of the Year because of its significant increase in use in the competition (a total rise of more than 100 per cent on the 2017 competition).

What this says
Children use plastic in their stories in an emotive way to convey their understanding of the damage pollution is causing to marine life, drawing on their creativity and imagination to deliver powerful descriptive imagery in stories, with titles such as The Plastic Shore, The Mermaid's Plastic Mission and The Evil Mr Plastic, OUP said in a statement.

"Children have shown they are acutely aware of the impact plastic has on our environment and how it will affect their own future. They have used their stories to devise imaginative ways to combat this issue and bring about change in their world."
- Vineeta Gupta, head of Children's Dictionaries at OUP


Last year, Trump was the Children's Word of the Year. 
This year, US president Donald Trump took the top spot for famous people mentioned for the second year in succession.

Santa and Cinderella remain the most used fictional characters as in all other years of the competition. Of the political words/names which have grown most in frequency of use since 2017, Brexit tops the list with an increase of 182 per cent. It is mainly mentioned as an item on the news, or as a boring topic of conversation. PTI 

Q: Readers, how can we beat the plastic menace. Tell us about your experience in the comment section! 

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Amogha M Koulapure STJ PU COLLEGE

Following OUP’s analysis of over 134,000 short stories submitted to the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans’ Breakfast Show’s 500 Words competition, Oxford Children’s Dictionaries have announced the Oxford Children’s Word of the Year 2018!

Amogha M Koulapure STJ PU COLLEGE

Following OUP’s analysis of over 134,000 short stories submitted to the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans’ Breakfast Show’s 500 Words competition, Oxford Children’s Dictionaries have announced the Oxford Children’s Word of the Year 2018!

Amogha M Koulapure STJ PU COLLEGE

Plastic is the Oxford Children’s Word of the Year because of its significant increase in use in 500 Words (a total rise of more than 100% from 2017), the awareness and passion children demonstrated for environmental issues, and the creative solutions to combat them that children invented in their stories.

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