The society of linguists, grammarians, and wordy scholars has awarded the prize each year since 1990, back when "bushlips," defined as "insincere political rhetoric," won Word of the Year and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...