The ADS WOTY conference

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:27:39AM -0600, Barbara Need wrote:
> There is a weekly column in the Chicago Tribune's Tempo section about
> language. Today's column on words of the year refers to the American
> Dialect Society's annual Word of the Year conference!

It also refers to the fact "The Oxford English Dictionary
named "chav" as its 'buzzword' of 2004." News to the OED.

<sigh>

Jesse Sheidlower
OED