word of the year: tweet; word of the decade: google

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Grant Barrett
<gbarrett at worldnewyork.org> wrote:
>
> The words of the year and the decade are in:
>
> http://americandialect.org/index.php/amerdial/2009_word_of_the_year_is_tweet_word_of_the_decade_is_google/

I've got a full report on the proceedings in my latest Word Routes column:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/2121/


--Ben Zimmer

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