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    Call for papers: American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2012, Portland

    April 27, 2011

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    Grant Barrett

    From 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 by the Linguistic Society of America. Monday, August 15, is the…

    Read more: Call for papers: American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2012, Portland
  • News, Words of the Year

    “App” voted 2010 word of the year by the American Dialect Society (UPDATED)

    January 8, 2011

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    Grant Barrett

    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 a computer or phone operating system) as the word of the…

    Read more: “App” voted 2010 word of the year by the American Dialect Society (UPDATED)
  • News, Words of the Year

    Nominations for 2010 word of the year posted

    January 7, 2011

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    Grant Barrett

    Nominations for the 2010 word of the year have been posted. The final vote will be held at 5:30 p.m., Friday, January 7th, at the Wyndham Grand Hotel in Pittsburgh. More information about the vote.

    Read more: Nominations for 2010 word of the year posted


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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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