[Ads-l] Word of the Year 2014: "#blacklivesmatter"

[Shapiro, Fred]

So I guess there is no real distinction between "word of the year" and "quotation of the year"?

Fred Shapiro



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Subject: Re: Word of the Year 2014: "#blacklivesmatter"

By what manner of well-meaning legerdemain does a three-word "Most Notable
Hashtag" become "word" of the year?

JL



On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

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> The Word of the Year for 2014 is "#blacklivesmatter," the first time that a
> hashtag has been selected as ADS WOTY. It also won a new category created
> for this year, Most Notable Hashtag.
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> Read the press release:
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.americandialect.org_2014-2Dword-2Dof-2Dthe-2Dyear-2Dis-2Dblacklivesmatter&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=sRkhHMQo6W5Ird1lkQFqb23bCfSHAR2XjUSUG53db5M&m=vLzljs2iWh27x18IzNqflrNiS2_w2NzbwHyXf4E6hrI&s=8mx8GmS-3tzWgiEYxfBU6a4IVw6edgCFvAVsuhCA1jI&e=
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