Chad perfused the voting for overall Word of the Year 2000 at the American Dialect Society’s meeting in Washington, D.C. January 5. In the annual choice of the word or phrase that was most notable or prominent in the year…

The American Dialect Society words of the year, decade, century, and millennium chosen in January 2000 need no introduction. But they could use an explanation. Word of the Year 1999 was Y2K. Word of the 1990s Decade was web. Word…

It is just a single letter of the alphabet, but the hyphenated prefix e- loomed so large in American discourse in 1998 that members and friends of the American Dialect Society at their annual meeting voted it Word (or perhaps…