The 2004 Words of the Year Vote Will Take Place Jan. 7, 2005, in Oakland.

Here are the final vote tallies for the 2003 Words of the Year from the American Dialect Society at its annual conference, held this year in Boston. These are the words which most colored the nation’s lexicon, or otherwise dominated…

The grim forebodings of the past year were reflected in the American Dialect Society’s choice of weapons of mass destruction and its abbreviation WMD as word (or phrase) of the year 2002. In the 13th annual vote among members and…