2014 Word of the Year is “#blacklivesmatter”
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Read more: 2014 Word of the Year is “#blacklivesmatter”HILTON PORTLAND—JAN. 9—In its 25th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted #blacklivesmatter as the Word of the Year for 2014. For the first time, a Twitter hashtag was selected by the society as its overall…
UPDATED Schedule for Annual Meeting in Portland, Ore., Jan. 8-11, 2015
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Read more: UPDATED Schedule for Annual Meeting in Portland, Ore., Jan. 8-11, 2015This is schedule for the American Dialect Society’s annual meeting in Portland, Ore., January 8-11, 2015, held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. More information about the conference (including hotel information) is here http://www.linguisticsociety.org/event/lsa-2015-annual-meeting….
Nominations for 2014 Word of the Year posted
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Read more: Nominations for 2014 Word of the Year postedNominations for the 2014 word of the year have been posted. The final vote will be held at 5:30 p.m. PST, Friday, January 9th, at the Hilton Portland, Skyline 1.