official call for 2012 word-of-the-year nominations

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Fri Dec 28 14:14:51 UTC 2012


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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> I've posted my list of nominees here:
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> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-year-in-words-2012-edition
>
> Further discussion in my Boston Globe column this Sunday:
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> http://b.globe.com/woty12bz
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> I'm also doing various radio interviews, starting with WNYC's Leonard Lopate:
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> http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2012/dec/11/best-and-worst-words-2012/
>
> More to come.

I was on NPR Morning Edition this morning talking about some WOTY candidates.

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/28/167719016/lets-double-down-on-a-superstorm-of-malarkey-picking-2012s-word-of-the-year

--bgz

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