The word “woke” has become the favoured catch-all accusation in political conversations.

According to new data the terms “woke”, “wokeness” and “wokeism” have been used more than 35,000 times across the Australian media in the past year.

Wordsmith at OzWords.com.au Kel Richards spoke with Julie-anne Sprague on 6PR’s Afternoons and Said was born in 1891 with a different meaning than today.

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