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  • Words of the Year

    Nominate the 2023 Words of the Year

    September 22, 2023

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    Grant Barrett

    Nominate your 2023 words of the year here. Since 1990, the American Dialect Society has selected words of the year to highlight language change and to bring a few aspects of the study of linguistics to the public’s attention. The…

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  • Words of the Year

    2021 Word of the Year is “Insurrection”

    January 7, 2022

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    Grant Barrett

    The American Dialect Society, in its 32nd annual words-of-the-year vote, selected “insurrection” as the Word of the Year for 2021. While the selection is typically held in person at the society’s annual meeting, for the second year in a row…

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    Nominations for Words of the Year 2021

    January 7, 2022

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    Grant Barrett

    Nominations for Words of the Year 2021 follow below. The final selection will be held at 5 p.m. EST on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022 in a virtual livestream vote. American Dialect Society Words of the Year (2021) NOMINATIONS to be…

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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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