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Word of 2016: People

"Perhaps we should try, before the year's out", writes Howard Jacobson, "to agree on the International Word of 2016".

"Perhaps we should try, before the year's out", writes Howard Jacobson, " to agree on the International Word of 2016 - the word that most describes where we've been these last 12 months".

"Post-truth", "Trump" and "Farage" are all in the running.

But in the end, Jacobson's chooses "people" as in "the people have spoken" for his Word of the Year.

Producer: Adele Armstrong.

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