{"id":12662,"date":"2025-12-18T19:16:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=12662"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:58:47","slug":"a-word-of-the-year-taco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2025\/12\/a-word-of-the-year-taco\/","title":{"rendered":"A word of the year: TACO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In its Dec. 6-12 edition, <em>The Economist<\/em> has an article has an article in which it proposes its &#8220;word of the year.&#8221; The article has no byline, and cites no sources \u2014 typical for <em>The Economist,<\/em> and one of the reasons I do not fully trust it \u2014 but this particular article is mostly humorous so I guess I don&#8217;t need a byline. The anonymous author begins the article by naming words-of-the-year that were runners-up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f3bdbb1784f27fb9f13a1878d9854db3\">&#8220;Finance is a good place to look for words of the year because trends move fast, and its denizens like neologisms. TACO is this year&#8217;s favorite. Coined by Robert Armstrong, a journalists at the <em>Financial Times,<\/em> it stands for &#8216;Trump Always Chickens Out&#8217; and points to the many tariff fights Donald Trump has picked and then backed down from&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the record, <em>The Economist&#8217;s<\/em> winning word of the year is &#8220;slop,&#8221; as in &#8220;AI slop.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its Dec. 6-12 edition, The Economist has an article has an article in which it proposes its &#8220;word of the year.&#8221; The article has no byline, and cites no sources \u2014 typical for The Economist, and one of the reasons I do not fully trust it \u2014 but this particular article is mostly humorous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2025\/12\/a-word-of-the-year-taco\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A word of the year: TACO&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12664,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662\/revisions\/12664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}