The word of the past decade (2011-2020) is ‘fake news.’ That, at least, is the opinion of the fine folk at the Macquarie Dictionary. They held an online vote to discover the ‘Word of the Decade’. But there was a catch (there’s always a catch!): you could only choose from their list of the ‘Words of the Year’ from the past ten years (twenty words in all, ten from the dictionary’s judging panel and ten voted in by the public each year).