Until December 31, everyone can submit their own proposal or choose from the words and phrases published by the organizers of the competition Word of the Year 2021 on the website sloworoku.uw.edu.pl. The proposals include: virtue of women, (Polish) New deal, mutation (of the virus), reassumption (of votes) or vaccination. One of these words will become the Word of the Year 2021.
The competition for the most important word of the last 12 months consists of an internet competition and a voting by the linguists’ jury. In the online poll, people can vote in two ways – by selecting a word or phrase from the list provided by the organizers and by submitting their own proposal. The catalog of words is created on the basis of key words from Polish dailies, which are published on the websites slowanaczasie.uw.edu.pl and slowadnia.clarin-pl.eu .
The competition is organized by the Institute of Polish Language at the University of Warsaw and the Polish Language Foundation.
The Word of the Year 2020 was the coronavirus. This word won the first place in the voting of Internet users and the linguists’ jury.
