The society named "dumpster fire" its 27th annual Word of the Year on Jan. 6 because it best represented "the public discourse and preoccupations of the past year.". After voting on the term ...

Later this week the American Dialect Society will announce its word of the Year. Renee Montagne discusses word contenders with linguist Ben Zimmer, who is the language columnist for The Wall ...

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 ...

In the past, ADS has recognized several queer words. In 2019, for example, its word of the year was “(my) pronouns,” and its word of the decade from 2010-2019 was “they” as a singular pronoun.

M any 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 ...

It’s not a conventional winner, but we’ll take it! The American Dialect Society has voted #blacklivesmatter as its 2014 Word of the Year (we deemed the hashtag worthy of a cover!).The ...

These days it seems like everyone goes around declaring the "word of the year," but the tradition began with the American Dialect Society, which met last night in Boston for its 23rd annual Word ...