Word Of The Year 2015 Announced

Hello all. Cambridge Dictionaries have today announced their most popular new word of 2015, Whingewatching. As we all know the word means: To watch a programme (or pretend not to be if a partner is watching it) and complain about it all the way through viewing. Sometimes even pausing the TV to have a rant e.g. “How can this be allowed to be on before the watershed.” Gogglebox have even made whingewatching into a TV programme. And, although the word was only used for the first time a few weeks ago, it is now the most used verb in the English speaking World. Even the Pope has used it in one of his rambling latin Vatican masses and just last week it was reported that the visiting King Of China asked David Cameron what he liked to whingewatch on TV (interestingly it was The BBC News. Dave said it was so b****y biased, left wing and anti-Government). But the real sign of the verbs popularity was that it was recently used 15 times in a single episode of Eastenders and confounded a contestant on Masterchef. Or maybe it was Mastermind. Christine Batley. Chief Verb And Noun Correspondent. Beckworth Guardian

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(Above) The contestants on Gogglebox searching for a lost slice of pizza whilst whingewatching their favourite TV programme

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