Oxford University Press's 2024 Word of the Year: which words did not make the cut?

Candidates for the word of the year are identified through a 26-billion-word database of global language data, with a shortlist developed throughout the past 12 months - (PA Archive)

Oxford University Press has named “brain rot” its 2024 Word of the Year, but what about the words that didn’t quite make the cut?

“Brain rot” was first recorded in 1854 in Henry David Thoreau’s book called Walden. Thoreau wrote: "While England endeavours to cure the potato rot, will not any endeavour to cure the brain rot — which prevails so much more widely and fatally?"