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Am I crazy or should it be "brainrot" (no space)? I'm actually not bothered by the idea of word of the year having spaces, I just thought this particular term h
by DonsDiscountGas 2y ago
Am I crazy or should it be "brainrot" (no space)? I'm actually not bothered by the idea of word of the year having spaces, I just thought this particular term had no space.
- xvector 2y agoIt should absolutely be "brainrot"!
- chii 2y agoexactly! "Brain rot" is when you have gangrene in the brain. Brainrot is when you have tiktok in the brain.
- casey2 2y agoIt's definitely "brainrot" scrolling through the thumbnails on [1] I see "brain rot" exactly 0 times. [1] https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brainrot https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brainrot
- panarchy 2y agospelling brainrot as "brain rot" is brainrot
- someothherguyy 2y agoBoth are used according to wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brain_rot https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brain_rot Also, OUP and others have picked a number of words of the year having spaces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year For example, "goblin mode" (2022). There are hundreds of words in the English language that contain spaces.
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]
- InsideOutSanta 2y agoGoogle Trends seems to indicate that it's overwhelmingly written as "brainrot", no space.