Fitting, really, for the topsy turvy times in which we live that the word you – our readers – have chosen as the one to summarise 2017, isn’t really a word at all.

Fitting also that it should have been invented by the man who has dominated so many headlines over the past year – fake or otherwise.

“Covfefe” is the winner of our online poll of the word of the year, receiving 27 per cent of the vote and pushing “Maybot” into second place on 17 per cent. “Bitcoin” came third on 16 per cent.

Covfefe, for the uninitiated, was invented by President Donald Trump. In May he tweeted to his 44m followers: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” And that was that.