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  • Words of the Year

    2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification”

    January 5, 2024

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    Ben Zimmer

    Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, New York, NY–Jan. 5—The American Dialect Society, in its 34th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected “enshittification” as the Word of the Year for 2023. More than three hundred attendees took part in the deliberations and…

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    Nominations for Words of the Year 2023

    January 5, 2024

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    Ben Zimmer

    Nominations for Words of the Year 2023 follow below. The final selection will be held at 7:30 pm EST on Friday, Jan. 5 (in the Metro East Ballroom of the Sheraton Times Square). American Dialect Society 2023 Words of the…

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    Nominate the 2023 Words of the Year

    September 22, 2023

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    Grant Barrett

    Nominate your 2023 words of the year here. Since 1990, the American Dialect Society has selected words of the year to highlight language change and to bring a few aspects of the study of linguistics to the public’s attention. The…

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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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