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  • News, Words of the Year

    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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  • News, Words of the Year

    “Fake news” is 2017 American Dialect Society word of the year

    January 5, 2018

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    Grant Barrett

    GRAND AMERICA HOTEL, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—JAN. 5—In its 28th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted for fake news as the Word of the Year for 2017. Defined in two ways, “disinformation or falsehoods presented…

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  • News, Words of the Year

    Nominations for 2017 Word of the Year posted

    January 5, 2018

    .

    Grant Barrett

    Nominations for the 2017 word of the year have been posted. The final vote will be held at 5 p.m. MST, Friday, January 5th, at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah, Grand Ballroom C. You can still…

    Read more: Nominations for 2017 Word of the Year posted


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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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