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    What’s Your 2012 Word of the Year?

    December 14, 2012

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    Grant Barrett

    What is the word or phrase which best characterizes the year 2012? What expression most reflects the ideas, events, and themes which have occupied the English-speaking world, especially North America? Each year since 1990, the American Dialect Society has chosen…

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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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