Word of the Decade Nominations Open for 2000-2009

[Grant Barrett]

Please send nominations to me, as well as to the list. Otherwise, they
may go uncounted.

Grant Barrett
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org

On Jan 16, 2009, at 13:33, Erik Hoover wrote:

> I nominate the verb "to text."
>
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Grant Barrett wrote:
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>> Subject:      Word of the Decade Nominations Open for 2000-2009
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>> At the American Dialect Society annual meeting in Baltimore next
>> January, not only will the Society choose Words of the Year just
>> past,
>> but members and friends will also have the solemn responsibility of
>> choosing a Word of the Decade 2000–2009.
>>
>> http://www.americandialect.org/woty2009/
>>
>> Until most of 2009 is over, judgment about the top words of 2009 will
>> have to wait. But since the decade is nearly over, it is not too
>> early
>> to consider which word best reflects this volatile ten-year period.
>>
>> Nominations may be sent to the chair of the ADS New Words Committee,
>> Grant Barrett, at gbarrett at worldnewyork.org. The committee will hold
>> an open meeting to consider nominations on Thursday, January 7, 2010,
>> with the final vote the next day.
>>
>> Candidates will include the ADS Word of the Year for each year,
>> though
>> the choice for Word of the Decade need not be limited to them. Some
>> of
>> them pervaded the whole decade, but others characterized only their
>> particular year. These were the Words of the Year, many of which now
>> require explanation:
>>
>> 2000 chad, a small scrap of paper punched from a voting card.
>>
>> 2001 9/11, terrorist attacks on September 11.
>>
>> 2002 weapons of mass destruction or WMD, sought for (without success)
>> in Iraq.
>>
>> 2003 metrosexual, fashion-conscious heterosexual male.
>>
>> 2004 red/blue/purple states, red favoring conservative Republicans
>> and
>> blue favoring liberal Democrats, as well as the undecided purple
>> states in the political map of the United States.
>>
>> 2005 truthiness, what one wishes to be the truth regardless of the
>> facts. (From the Colbert Report on television.)
>>
>> 2006 to be plutoed, to pluto, to be demoted or devalued, as was the
>> former planet Pluto.
>>
>> 2007 subprime, a risky or less than ideal loan or investment.
>>
>> 2008 bailout, rescue by government of companies on the brink of
>> failure.
>>
>> The American Dialect Society was established in 1889 to study the
>> English language in North America. It has been choosing Words of the
>> Year since 1990, and Words of the Decade since 2000. In 2000 the Word
>> of the Decade was web. (That year the Society also chose Word of the
>> Century, jazz, and Word of the Millennium, she.)
>>
>> More information on Words of the Year is available at the American
>> Dialect Society website, http://www.americandialect.org/woty/.
>>
>> Grant Barrett
>> Vice President of Communications and Technology
>> American Dialect Society
>> http://www.americandialect.org
>> gbarrett at worldnewyork.org
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