A home run in a baseball game Credit: Keith Johnston from Pixabay
A home run in a baseball game Credit: Keith Johnston from Pixabay Homer, an informal American English word for a home run in baseball, is Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year 2022, thanks to Wordle. English speakers continue to be divided over differences between English language varieties Wendalyn Nichols The Cambridge Dictionary has revealed its word of the year for 2022 as "homer". Editors have credited disgruntled Wordle players whose winning streak was ended by the unfamiliar American English term. Homer , an informal American English word for a home run in baseball, was searched for nearly 75,000 times on the Cambridge Dictionary website during the first week of May when it was an answer in the online five-letter word puzzle. It became the dictionary's highest-spiking word of the year, and editors said five-letter Wordle answers dominated searches this year as the game became a global phenomenon. Tellingly, 95% of searches for homer were from outside North America as baffled Wordle players turned to the Cambridge Dictionary to find out what it meant. Some speakers of British English expressed frustration on social media about the choice of "homer" as the Wordle answer for 5th May.
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