What’s Your 2012 Word of the Year?
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Read more: What’s Your 2012 Word of the Year?What is the word or phrase which best characterizes the year 2012? What expression most reflects the ideas, events, and themes which have occupied the English-speaking world, especially North America? Each year since 1990, the American Dialect Society has chosen…
Abstracts for the 2013 Annual Meeting in Boston
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Read more: Abstracts for the 2013 Annual Meeting in BostonThis is the final list of abstracts for the 2013 American Dialect Society Annual Meeting in Boston. Jon Bakos (Oklahoma State University) Bringing the thunder: A first look at the vowel system of Oklahoma This paper describes the current vowel…
Nominating Commitee Report
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Read more: Nominating Commitee ReportAt the American Dialect Society Annual Meeting in Boston in January, three officers are to be elected. The Nominating Committee (William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., chair; Connie Eble, Sali Tagliamonte) proposes: Vice President and program chair for two-year term 2013-14, succeeding…