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Collins Dictionary Language Blog
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Collins Dictionary Language Blog is the company blog at blog.collinsdictionary.com, writing about writing and culture. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Collins' Word of the Year 2025: Vibe Coding”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Commenters cite this dictionary blog as a source on word meanings and origins, including whether 'vibe coding' is in dictionaries and the origins of 'daemon' and 'genius'.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A world of wordy wonders
Most-linked posts?
- Collins' Word of the Year 2025: Vibe Coding2 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2025-11-06
What Hacker News says?
> AI moves so fast that Vibe Coding still has a negative stigma attached to it As it should, it's about writing code on vibes, not looking at the code, it's literally the definition of the term: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383 And when I say literally I'm including dictionaries: https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lovers/collins-w...
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on “Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec”Submitted NFT Is the Collins Dictionary Word of the Year as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSome other WOTY selections: Oxford 'rage bait' https://corp.oup.com/news/the-oxford-word-of-the-year-2025-i... Collins 'vibe coding' https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lovers/collins-w... Cambridge 'parasocial' https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/11/18/cambridge-di... Dictionary.com '67' https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-year-2025/
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on “2025 Word of the Year: Slop”Submitted Collins' Word of the Year 2025: Vibe Coding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is interesting and... it appears to be complicated. And the "related" appears to be ancient rather than a loan word from Arabic to French brought over as part of Arabian Nights. There's a word in latin for genius (genii or geni) which is described as: the deity or guardian spirit of a person, place, etc. https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lovers/we-take-a... > The idea of a ‘genius’ originated in ancie…
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on “The Origin of the Word Daemon (2002)”Submitted Collins' Word of the Year 2025: Vibe Coding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOfficial post: https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lovers/collins-w...
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on “'Vibe coding' named word of the year by Collins Dictionary”Submitted Collins' Word of the Year 2025: Vibe Coding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSource: https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lovers/collins-w...
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on “'Vibe coding' named Word of the Year”Where some of the other big WOTY selections ended up: Oxford 'rage bait' https://corp.oup.com/news/the-oxford-word-of-the-year-2025-i... Collins 'vibe coding' https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lovers/collins-w... Cambridge 'parasocial' https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/11/18/cambridge-di... Dictionary.com '67' https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-year-2025/ Merriam-Webster 'slop' https://www.me…
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on “American Dialect Society 2025 Word of the Year Is "Slop"”Where some of the other big WOTY selections ended up: Oxford 'rage bait' https://corp.oup.com/news/the-oxford-word-of-the-year-2025-i... Collins 'vibe coding' https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lovers/collins-w... Cambridge 'parasocial' https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/11/18/cambridge-di... Dictionary.com '67' https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-year-2025/ Merriam-Webster 'slop' https://www.me…
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on “Nominations for Words of the Year 2025”Source: https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lovers/collins-w... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848047 )
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on “"Vibe coding" beats "clanker" to be Collins dictionary's word of the year”Blog post: https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lovers/collins-w...
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on “Vibe Coding as 2025 word of the year in Collins dictionary”
