The Oxford University Press team chose 'metaverse’ to come in as a runner-up to ‘Goblin mode’ for the word of the year in 2022.

In a Dec. 4 announcement, Oxford Languages said the viral term ‘Goblin mode’ had beat out ‘metaverse’ and millions of other words to become the team’s 2022 word of the year. According to Oxford’s research, usage of the term metaverse “increased almost fourfold from the previous year in the Oxford Corpus,” driven in part by Facebook’s rebranding to Meta in October 2021.

(by Turner Wright)