Call for papers: American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2010, Baltimore
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Read more: Call for papers: American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2010, BaltimoreFrom Thursday, January 7, 2010, through Saturday, January 9, the American Dialect Society will hold its next annual meeting, hosted as usual by the Linguistic Society of America, at the new Hilton Baltimore, 401 West Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland….
Word of the Decade Nominations Open for 2000-2009
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Read more: Word of the Decade Nominations Open for 2000-2009At the American Dialect Society annual meeting in Baltimore next January, not only will the Society choose Words of the Year just past, but members and friends will also have the solemn responsibility of choosing a Word of the Decade…
American Dialect Society 2008 Word of the Year is “Bailout”
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Read more: American Dialect Society 2008 Word of the Year is “Bailout”In its 19th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted “bailout” as the word of the year. In the specific sense used most frequently in 2008, bailout refers to the rescue by the government of companies…