official call for 2012 word-of-the-year nominations

[Grant Barrett]

What is the word or phrase which best characterizes the year 2012? What expression most reflects the ideas, events, and themes which have occupied the English-speaking world, especially North America?

The best “word of the year” candidates will be:

-- demonstrably new or newly popular in 2012
-- widely and/or prominently used in 2012
-- indicative or reflective of the popular discourse
-- not a peeve or a complaint about overuse or misuse

Full details:

http://www.americandialect.org/whats-your-2012-word-of-the-year

Grant Barrett
American Dialect Society
Vice President of Communications and Technology
http://www.americandialect.org
grantbarrett at gmail.com

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