Mirriam-Webster has warned if people don't start looking up other words, it'll be forced to declare this year's Word of the Year as "fascism".
"'Fascism' is still our #1 lookup. # of lookups = how we choose our Word of the Year," the dictionary publisher posted on Twitter, with a plea to users.
"There's still time to look something else up."
Mirriam-Webster didn't say why "fascism" was in vogue, but there's a good chance the US election has something to do with it, or perhaps the rise of the alt-right movement in the US and Europe.
Following the tweet, "puppy" started catching up.
"There are many thousands of people that looked it up," editor Peter Sokolowski told the New York Times.
"To move the needle at this point, though, you really need a lot lookups of the same word."
Mirriam-Webster approved of the new trend.
"We like puppies. They're surprisingly good at grammar," it wrote in a blog post, noting that "flummadiddle" was also gaining ground.
If fascism does ultimately triumph, it would cap off a year full of upsets and bad news from the pop culture world.
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