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Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2025
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That is 2 words (or 3 depending how you count the abbreviation). You'd think a dictionary could get that right.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/compounds
Fun fact: linguists don't actually know what defines a "word"
Why is this downvoted, it's actually a real thing
Linguists struggle to find an exact definition of what a word is because speakers of different languages have different opinions of what a word is, and some languages make the distinction unclear
Neither of those are 1 word. At least hyphen them to pretend they're one word.