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    “Tender-age shelter” is 2018 American Dialect Society word of the year

    January 4, 2019

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    Grant Barrett

    SHERATON TIMES SQUARE HOTEL, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK—JAN. 4—In its 29th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted for tender-age shelter (also tender-age facility or tender-age camp) as the Word of the Year for 2018….

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    Nominations for 2018 Word of the Year posted

    January 4, 2019

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    Grant Barrett

    Nominations for the 2018 word of the year have been posted. The final vote will be held at 5 p.m. EST, Friday, January 4th, at the Sheraton Times Square Hotel in New York City, Empire Ballroom. You can still make…

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    Call for Papers for 2019 American Dialect Society Annual Meeting in New York City, January 3-6

    April 19, 2018

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    Grant Barrett

    From Thursday, January 3, through Sunday, January 6, 2019, the American Dialect Society will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel in New York City. Monday, August…

    Read more: Call for Papers for 2019 American Dialect Society Annual Meeting in New York City, January 3-6


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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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