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

[Ben Zimmer]

I've posted my list of nominees here:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-year-in-words-2012-edition

Further discussion in my Boston Globe column this Sunday:

http://b.globe.com/woty12bz

I'm also doing various radio interviews, starting with WNYC's Leonard Lopate:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2012/dec/11/best-and-worst-words-2012/

More to come.

--bgz


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Grant Barrett wrote:
>
>
> 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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