21.183, Media: Top English Words of 2009

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Subject: 21.183, Media: Top English Words of 2009

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Date: 11-Jan-2010
From: Evelyn Richter < evelyn.richter at gmail.com >
Subject: Top English Words of 2009
 

	
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:54:56
From: Evelyn Richter [evelyn.richter at gmail.com]
Subject: Top English Words of 2009

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An article titled "American Dialect Society picks 'tweet,' 'Google' as top
words for 2009, decade" appeared in The Washington Post last week. Here is
the link to the article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/08/AR2010010803692_3.html 


Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)




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