Nominations for 2011 Word of the Year

[Ben Zimmer]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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> We had our nominating session for Word of the Year here in Portland,
> and the nominees have now been posted:
>
> http://www.americandialect.org/nominations-for-2011-word-of-the-year-posted
>
> Direct link to the PDF file: http://bit.ly/woty11noms

And the winner is... "occupy".

http://www.americandialect.org/occupy-is-the-2011-word-of-the-year

Full press release, with winners in the various categories, is here:

http://www.americandialect.org/2011-Word-of-the-Year-PRESS-RELEASE.pdf

--bgz

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