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But before this, some of the brightest Chinese minds of the 20th century had to figure out a way to harness the complex pictographs that make up written Chinese into a typewriter, and later, a computer.”

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Or do we change the singular?

-y → -ies: sery
-ium → -ia: serium
-on → -a: seron
∅ → -s: serie
∅ → -es: ser
-x → -ces: serix

Some ideas based on other plurals:

-en plural: serien
Germanic vowel change: saries
Latin 1st declension: serae
Latin 2nd declension neuter: seria
Latin 3rd declension: serices
Old English style: seerees
French style: serieux
Gollum style: serieses
Semitic style: serim
Parseltongue: serieseseses

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We also tend to use reflexive pronouns with conjunctions (“and”). This use might be thought of as a special *conjunctive* pronoun.

Thomas Jefferson was once quoted as saying, “Hamilton and myself were daily pitted [against each other] in the cabinet.”

And what if you want to put “I” first because it’s more topical? Which of these sounds better?

“I and Anna went to the store.”
“Myself and Anna went to the store.”

So to be precise, @dictionarycom.bsky.social's Word of the Year is the linguistic expression “six-seven”, not the numbers 6-7.

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Some others words on the shortlist were:

- agentic
- aura farming
- broligarchy
- clanker
- overtourism
- tariff
- tradwife