Newspaper report on WOTY

[Dennis R. Preston]

>The reporter who interviewed me for the Detroit News said that "A
>group of lexicons" had decided on the word.

dInIs

>Philadelphia Inquirer, January 15, 2004, page E2 column 1
>
>Main headline "What's the god word?  It's 'metrosexual'
>Subhead over the main headline "A Boston society picks the top term for
>2003."
>
>by Alfred Lubrano.  No wire service indicators.
>Article begins
>
>     "_Metrosexual_ is the Word of the Year 2003, as chosen by the American
>Dialect Society.  The word refers to a fashion-conscious heterosexual male.
>        "The good and worthy word-pickers at the Boston society---which has
>been choosing a word of the year since the late 19th
>century---thought that the
>noun most signified 2003.
>        [rest of article not copied]"