Lack of electricity, protection status S and women’s ticket German-speaking Switzerland most shaped the discourse in 2022, ZHAW said on Tuesday. A ten-member jury finally made the ranking.
Even if the power outage did not necessarily occur, it was often mentioned in politics and in the media. The statement said the situation remained unclear. A dark and cold winter continues to threaten Stuben, Switzerland.
Words of the year were also chosen in other national languages. It is “boycotter” in French, “penuria” in Italian, and “mancanza” in Romansh.
The Department of Applied Linguistics at ZHAW in Winterthur analyzes the Swiss discourse database Corpus Swiss-AL and identifies more frequently used words per language than in previous years.
(SDA)