Though it's officially 2017, the world is still trying to recover from the that was 2016. While the year provided us with enough words to form a glossary, a few in particular were powerful enough to ...

It’s not fake news. The American Dialect Society’s 2017 Word of the Year is: “fake news.” The society chose the phrase on Jan. 5, which they defined as “disinformation or falsehoods presented as real ...

The American Dialect Society—the same august, century-old body that brought us “-ussy” as its 2022 Word Of The Year—has gone ahead and once again decided to choose chaos, naming “rawdog” its WOTY for ...

Many outfits choose a “word of the year” before the year is actually over. But not the American Dialect Society, the organization that started the tradition. Its members wait until January to cast ...

The American Dialect Society selected a term that refers to the deterioration of online platforms. By Sam Corbin Sam Corbin reported this story in New York, from the American Dialect Society’s annual ...

Each year, members of the American Dialect Society (ADS) convene for a few days to present new studies, attend panel discussions about language, and vote on the Word of the Year. Though the conference ...