So, take a stroll down memory lane to remember all of our past Word of the Year selections.



CARETAKER NEEDED late September to May on a self sufficient comfortable Aleutian homestead. Orcas, eiders, sea otters, caribou, hydroelectric power, Internet, loom, hot tub. I need someone to look after my elderly cat while I'm away.
I have a finished one bedroom flat in a very desirable area in Chiswick.
Should advancing age cause people like me who are single to rethink our status? In an effort to quantify the feeling of loneliness – a sense of not having meaningful contact with others, accompanied by painful distress – geriatric specialists at the University of California, San Francisco, asked 1,604 adults age 60 and older how often they felt isolated or left out, or lacked companionship.
Sixty-two percent of those who reported being lonely were married.
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If you have trouble with this file, you can download and install the viewer by clicking on the Adobe Reader Icon. HOUSESITTER NEEDED in Chiswick, West London from mid-January to mid-April.
NEED CARETAKER or handyman or woman or couple to help on 8 acre farm and Inn on Orcas Island. Live rent-free in exchange for light maintenance work such as weeding, raking, gardening, maintenance of fences and buildings, shopping for supplies, rototilling and weed-eating work.
Person or persons need their own tools to do fence mending, landscaping, light plumbing, light electrical. Please write to XXXX XXX XXXXX, Box XXX, Cruz Bay, Virgin Islands 00831. Applicants should be in good health, handy, and resourceful with a common sense understanding of the hazards of nature.
Our Word of the Year choice serves as a symbol of each year’s most meaningful events and lookup trends.