Lovers of the English language are coming together to select the coolest word or phrase. Last year, app was voted the word of the year by the American Dialect Society. Now that group of etymologists, ...

Every year, the American Dialect Society nominates and then votes on a word of the year, and for 2012 it’s “hashtag.” It beat out other nominated words like “YOLO,” “Fiscal cliff,” and “Gangnam style.

Trump helped change the definition of "fake news" in 2017, according to the American Dialect Society.

The American Dialect Society announces the "word of the year" next week. Word scholars and the general public can submit "word" nominations anytime before Jan. 6. Linguist Ben Zimmer talks to Renee ...

The American Dialect Society—the same august, century-old body that brought us “-ussy” as its 2022 Word Of The Year—has gone ahead and once again decided to choose chaos, naming “rawdog” its WOTY for ...

We’ve been talking about words of the year for a month now. Oxford Dictionaries chose “selfie” as its word of the year; Merriam-Webster chose “science.” “Twerk” got a lot of attention, but didn’t ...

Defeating the words "junk" and "WikiLeaks," the word "app" was picked as the 2010 word of the year by the American Dialect Society. Short for "application," "app" received 69 votes from the linguists ...

The American Dialect Society has named “because” its word of the year for 2013. What makes because special is its evolving usage. Where once “because” needed to be followed by “of” or a full clause, ...

This was a question I should really have anticipated, but it took me by surprise. I had just talked to a packed marquee at the 2018 Hay Festival about why dialects of English are of such enduring ...

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It’s not fake news. The American Dialect Society’s 2017 Word of the Year is: “fake news.” The society chose the phrase on Jan. 5, which they defined as “disinformation or falsehoods presented as real ...