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    What’s Your 2012 Word of the Year?

    December 14, 2012

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    Grant Barrett

    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…

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    “Occupy” is the 2011 Word of the Year

    January 6, 2012

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    Grant Barrett

    HILTON PORTLAND-JAN. 6 — In its 22nd annual words of the year vote, with record attendance, the American Dialect Society voted “occupy” (verb, noun, and combining form referring to the Occupy protest movement) as the word of the year for…

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    Nominations for 2011 word of the year posted

    January 5, 2012

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    Ben Zimmer

    Nominations for the 2011 word of the year have been posted. The final vote will be held at 5:30 p.m., Friday, January 6th, at the Hilton Portland Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon. More information about the vote.

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The mission of the American Dialect Society, a not-for-profit organization, is to encourage the study of any aspect of all languages and dialects used or found in North America (as well as associated islands in the Pacific and the Atlantic) and in the Caribbean Basin, and the languages that influence them: spoken, signed, or written, modern or historical, Indigenous or introduced, common or rare.

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