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…

The American Dialect Society is now accepting 2017 word-of-the-year nominations for the categories and criteria described below. Nominations can be sent by email to woty@americandialect.org or on Twitter to @americandialect. Since 1990, the society has selected words of the year…

JW MARRIOTT, AUSTIN, TX—JAN. 6—In its 27th annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted for dumpster fire as the Word of the Year for 2016. Defined as “an exceedingly disastrous or chaotic situation,” the term dumpster…