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                                        <p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:centuryschoolbook">In its 27th annual words of the year vote,
the American Dialect Society voted for </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:centuryschoolbook;font-style:italic">dumpster fire </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:centuryschoolbook">as the Word of the Year for 2016.
Defined as “an exceedingly disastrous or chaotic situation,” the term </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:centuryschoolbook;font-style:italic">dumpster fire </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:centuryschoolbook">was
selected as best representing the public discourse and preoccupations of the past year.</span></p><p><font color="#333333" face="centuryschoolbook"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Read the full press release, including all winners, candidates, and vote tallies for all candidates:</span></font><br></p><p><font color="#333333" face="centuryschoolbook"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><a href="http://www.americandialect.org/dumpster-fire-is-2016-american-dialect-society-word-of-the-year">http://www.americandialect.org/dumpster-fire-is-2016-american-dialect-society-word-of-the-year</a></span></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:centuryschoolbook;font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:centuryschoolbook;font-size:11pt">....</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:centuryschoolbook;font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p><font color="#333333" face="centuryschoolbook"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Grant Barrett</span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="centuryschoolbook"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">American Dialect Society</span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="centuryschoolbook"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Vice President of Communications and Technology</span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="centuryschoolbook"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><a href="http://www.americandialect.org">http://www.americandialect.org</a></span></font></p><p><font color="#333333" face="centuryschoolbook"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><a href="mailto:grantbarrett@gmail.com">grantbarrett@gmail.com</a></span></font></p>
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