2012 Word of the Year: "hashtag"

[Ben Zimmer]

"Hashtag" has won as ADS Word of the Year. Read all about it:

http://www.americandialect.org/hashtag-2012

And here's my Word Routes recap of the voting:

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/tag-youre-it-hashtag-wins-as-2012-word-of-the-year

--bgz

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Ben Zimmer
http://benzimmer.com/

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