Were you a perf, a piżellu or a ġobnuż in 2016, a year many believe was marred by Brexit and the US presidential race? The three words, coined by Maltese-language social media users, are the latest addition to the local spoken vocabulary. Every year, the online Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries, among others, list new English words that have made it into the pop-culture lexicon. The Oxford English Dictionary is updated four times a year, and this month, 'Brexit' became one of the dictionary's official words, along with 'YouTuber', a noun used to refer to frequent users of the video-sharing website. In September, 'Yolo' (you only live once), 'moobs' (unusually prominent breasts on a man) and 'Merica' (used to emphasise stereotypical American qualities) in the run-up to the presidential elections made it to the OED. Malta too has had its own set of new words, with perf, piżellu, ġobnuż, blakafefobija, stramħabbat, skritratt, klixka and ħlewwa jew dnewwa making the list. University lecturer Michael Spagnol said that some (like perf) were coined by young people, who were an inexhaustible source of new words, while others (like piżellu) were invented by TV hosts. Words, such as...
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