The American Dialect Society is preparing to announce its 23rd annual Word of the Year. Among the front-runners are malarkey, superstorm, YOLO, fiscal cliff, and selfie.

Meanwhile, Susie Dent, contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (and compiler of A Word A Year since 1906), has already selected ‘to GIF’, and Merriam-Webster (joining the word-a-year party in 2003) has chosen ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism’ to sum up the year.

Here are the past 23 years worth of words from all three organizations, in tag-cloud form:

And now in table form… trends in dialect, buzzwords and our focus as a society really pop out.