Dodi Schultz
November 24th, 2007, 12:02 PM
Those of you who, like me, subscribe to Michael Quinion's World Wide Words
newsletter will already know this. For the rest:
The academic American Dialect Society is inviting nominations for its "Word
of the Year" (the year being 2007), which will be selected at the Society's
annual meeting in January. The "word" can actually be a phrase, and the
locution need not be brand new but should have become newly prominent in
2007. The choosing of the word or phrase--to quote the group's statement,
as repeated by Quinion--"is not a formal induction of terms into the
American language, but a whimsical affair."
Where to post nominations: woty (AT) americandialect (DOT) org
--Dodi
newsletter will already know this. For the rest:
The academic American Dialect Society is inviting nominations for its "Word
of the Year" (the year being 2007), which will be selected at the Society's
annual meeting in January. The "word" can actually be a phrase, and the
locution need not be brand new but should have become newly prominent in
2007. The choosing of the word or phrase--to quote the group's statement,
as repeated by Quinion--"is not a formal induction of terms into the
American language, but a whimsical affair."
Where to post nominations: woty (AT) americandialect (DOT) org
--Dodi