The word of the year, chosen by Oxford University Press to capture the ethos of 2011, is "squeezed middle."
The word of the year, which is obviously a phrase of the year, is chosen each year by U.S. lexicographers. British wordsmiths choose their own word of the year for the dictionary. But for the first time ever, both American and British came up with the same expression.
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