Early 2009 WOTY nominations posted

[Grant Barrett]

I've just posted the early 2009 word of the year nominations to the ADS web site.

http://americandialect.org/09noms

There are some definite winners in there. Maybe we can do better than "bailout"?

I'll be posting word of the decade nominations in the next few days.

Grant Barrett
American Dialect Society
Vice President of Communications and Technology
Chair of the New Words Committee
Editor of "Among the New Words" in the society's academic journal "American Speech"
http://www.americandialect.org
grantbarrett at gmail.com

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