RÚV published the result just about an hour ago: hraunkælingarstjóri is the Word of the Year (Orð Ársins) 2024, having received about a quarter of the votes in the preceding poll.

The word means, literally, lava cooling manager, and is the (unofficial) job title of the person whose job it is to make sure that flowing lava is cooled down so as to ( Read more... )