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    2019 Word of the Year is “(My) Pronouns,” Word of the Decade is Singular “They”

    January 3, 2020

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    Grant Barrett

    HILTON NEW ORLEANS RIVERSIDE, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA—JAN. 3—In its 30th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted for “(my) pronouns” as its Word of the Year (2019) and singular “they” as its Word of the Decade…

    Read more: 2019 Word of the Year is “(My) Pronouns,” Word of the Decade is Singular “They”
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    Nominations for Words of the Year 2019 and Words of the Decade 2010-2019

    January 3, 2020

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    Grant Barrett

    Nominations for Words of the Year 2019 and Words of the Decade 2010-2019 have been posted. The final vote will be held at 5 p.m. CST, Friday, January 3rd, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, St. Charles Ballroom. Words of…

    Read more: Nominations for Words of the Year 2019 and Words of the Decade 2010-2019
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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….

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


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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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