500 Words language insights

This year’s BBC Radio 2 500 WORDS competition received 123,436 entries from young writers. ‘Refugee’ is the Children’s Word of the Year, due to a significant increase in usage by entrants writing in this year’s competition combined with the sophisticated context that children were using it in and the rise in emotive and descriptive language around it.

For more facts, infographics and analysis visit the Oxford University Press website where the full Oxford Children’s Corpus Summary Report is available to download.