Nominate your 2007 Word of the Year

[Grant Barrett]

Fellow ADS-Lers, please share this with outsiders. Note the addition
of a public address for nominations.

Nominate your 2007 Word of the Year

The American Dialect Society's word-of-the-year vote—the longest-
running such vote anywhere—takes place in Chicago in January at its
annual meeting. The academic society is now accepting word-of-the-
year nominations at woty at americandialect.org. Word of the Year is
interpreted in its broader sense as "vocabulary item"--not just words
but phrases. Your nominations do not have to be brand-new, but they
should be newly prominent or notable in the past year, and should
have appeared frequently in the national discourse. The word-of-the-
year vote is not a formal induction of words into the American
language, but a whimsical affair. Nominate accordingly.

Grant Barrett
Vice President of Communications and Technology
American Dialect Society
http://www.americandialect.org
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org

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