What’s Your Word of the Year?
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Read more: What’s Your Word of the Year?What is the word or phrase which best characterizes the year 2011? What expression most reflects the ideas, events, and themes which have occupied the English-speaking world, especially North…
Call for papers: American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2012, Portland
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Read more: Call for papers: American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2012, PortlandFrom Thursday, January 5, 2012, through Saturday, January 7, ADS will hold its next annual meeting at the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon, hosted as usual…
“App” voted 2010 word of the year by the American Dialect Society (UPDATED)
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Read more: “App” voted 2010 word of the year by the American Dialect Society (UPDATED)WYNDHAM GRAND HOTEL, PITTSBURGH—JAN. 7—In its 21st annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted “app” (noun, an abbreviated form of application, a software program for…