The American Dialect Society is now accepting nominations for the “word of the year” of 2009, as well as for the “word of the decade” for 2000-2009 What is the word or phrase which best characterizes the year or the…

American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2010 Baltimore, January 7–9 At the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America Download the full schedule in PDF form. Updated November 10, 2009. Download the abstracts in PDF form. Updated November 10, 2009….

At 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…