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Digested week: never enough tissues for the school carol service | Lucy Mangan

Much as I try to steel myself and be like the Grinch, Once In Royal David’s City still undoes me every time

Those crazy guys and gals at the Oxford English Dictionary have announced that 2023’s Word of the Year is – lexicographical drum roll please, which I somehow imagine to be timorous and just off any possible beat! – Rizz. No, I know, me neither! Apparently it is very popular with the young folk and refers to someone’s romantic appeal or charm. Think of it as anywhere between “game” or Clara Bow’s “It” depending on the last decade you ever looked at someone and thought “would”.

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