Nominations for 2011 Word of the Year

[Ben Zimmer]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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> And the winner is... "occupy".
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> http://www.americandialect.org/occupy-is-the-2011-word-of-the-year
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> Full press release, with winners in the various categories, is here:
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> http://www.americandialect.org/2011-Word-of-the-Year-PRESS-RELEASE.pdf

Here's my wrap-up:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/3091/

with video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNTKesG4zCw

And Geoff Pullum also had a WOTY write-up for the Chronicle of Higher
Education's Lingua Franca blog:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2012/01/08/the-year-of-occupy/

--bgz

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