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    2013 Word of the Year Candidates

    December 28, 2013

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    Grant Barrett

    Each year the American Dialect Society gathers to nominate the words that best characterized the previous 12 months. This year, we’ll gather in Minneapolis. The open nominating meeting for Words of the Year 2013 is at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, January…

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    “Hashtag” is the 2012 Word of the Year

    January 4, 2013

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    Ben Zimmer

    BOSTON MARIOTT COPLEY PLACE — JAN. 4 — In its 23rd annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted “hashtag” as the word of the year for 2012. Hashtag refers to the practice used on Twitter for…

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    Nominations for 2012 Word of the Year posted

    January 3, 2013

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    Ben Zimmer

    Nominations for the 2012 word of the year have been posted. The final vote will be held at 5:30 p.m., Friday, January 4th, at the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Grand Ballroom Salons B/C/D. More information about the vote.

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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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