Hard News: Jacindamania: Word famous in New Zealand
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The Public Address Word of the Year 2017 is "Jacindamania".
Hundreds of readers of the award-winning blog site Public Address voted this week on a longlist of words nominated in a discussion on the website.
The winning word was one that could hardly have been conceived of as the year began, with the Prime Minister not yet even the MP for Mt Albert.
Unlike some previous winners, it has a clear whakapapa: it was the coinage of Bryce Edwards, who used it in his Political Roundup for August 2, the day after Jacinda Ardern became the leader of the Labour…