<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>For the first time ever, the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year proceedings will be held virtually this year! WOTY 2020 will be held one month from now, on Thursday, December 17, 2020, at 7 p.m. EST. It's a free event and all are invited to attend.<br><br>The event will be held as a Zoom webinar, and you can register to participate here:<br><br><a href="https://word-of-the-year-2020.eventbrite.com">https://word-of-the-year-2020.eventbrite.com</a><br><br>You can also make up to five nominations when you register! Your nominations should be some or all of the following:<br><br>* widely used,<br>* new or newly popular,<br>* significant to the happenings of 2020,<br>* and/or indicative of public discourse and national preoccupations in 2020.<br><br>Single words, phrases, compounds, catch phrases, hashtags, and other types of brief written or spoken communication are accepted as nominations.<br><br>This event is sponsored by Duke University Press. <br><br>--Ben Zimmer, Chair of the New Words Committee<br><br></div></div>
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