Knowing my fascination for words one of the daughters subscribed me to the Oxford University Press Word of the Day

This would not, you would think, be a strongly political source.
I don’t know though.

Today’s mailing makes me think that someone in the OUD is expressing a political preference.

It cannot surely be an accident that on election day in the USA their word for the day certainly reflects back to the last election.

chad,
(A piece of) the waste material removed from punched cards or tape during punching.