2012 Word of the Year: "hashtag"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Does this mean that "octothorpe" has definitively lost out?

Fred Shapiro



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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Ben Zimmer [bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU]
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 12:44 AM
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Subject: 2012 Word of the Year: "hashtag"

"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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