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Follow on Google News | "Gaza" and "Barbie" Chosen as Joint 2023 Names of the Year"Swiftie" was chosen as Personal Name of the Year. "Swiftie" is the self-identifying term for fans of Taylor Swift, a neologism that is a modification of Swift's name. The term was quickly picked up and used by the media. Linguistically, it employs the diminutive ending "-ie", which is a particularly productive pattern in pop culture. "Gaza" was voted Place Name of the Year. Gaza is the name for the stretch of land between Egypt and Israel, and has become shorthand for the ongoing Israel/Hamas War. Its Hebrew name is "Azzah", meaning "strength" and its Arabic name is "Ghazzah". It refers not only to the geographic region, but also to the current humanitarian disaster happening there. "ChatGPT" won the title Brand Name of the Year. The name of OpenAI's artificial intelligence tool is a compound of the word "chat", referring to the chatbot, and the initialism "GPT", for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer" do not understand. "Barbenheimer" "X" was voted E-Name of the Year. The attempted—and mostly failed—rebranding/ The full press release is available here: https://www.americannamesociety.org/ End
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