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  • Words of the Year

    2022 Word of the Year is “-ussy”

    January 6, 2023

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    Grant Barrett

    Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center–Jan. 6—The American Dialect Society, in its 33rd annual words-of-the-year vote, selected the suffix “-ussy” as the Word of the Year for 2022. More than two hundred attendees took part in the deliberations and…

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    Nominations for Words of the Year 2022

    January 6, 2023

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    Grant Barrett

    Nominations for Words of the Year 2022 follow below. The final selection will be held at 5:30 pm MST on Friday, Jan. 6 (in the Centennial Ballroom of the Denver Hyatt Regency). American Dialect Society Words of the Year (2022)…

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    Now Accepting Nominations for 2022 Word of the Year

    December 9, 2022

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    Grant Barrett

    The New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society is now accepting Word of the Year nominations for 2022. Nominations can be submitted via Google Forms here. Please submit your nominations by 5 pm ET on Wed., Dec. 28. Since…

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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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