[Ads-l] ADS Word of the Year is going virtual! (Dec. 17, 2020)

Ben Zimmer bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM
Tue Nov 17 22:40:14 UTC 2020


Thanks, Alice. As noted, you can make WOTY nominations (up to five) as part
of the registration process on Eventbrite. For those who would like to
submit nominations without registering for the event, feel free to send
them along to <woty at americandialect.org>.


On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 5:32 PM Alice Faber <afaber at panix.com> wrote:

> On 11/17/20 1:33 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> > For the first time ever, the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year
> > proceedings will be held virtually this year! WOTY 2020 will be held one
> > month from now, on Thursday, December 17, 2020, at 7 p.m. EST. It's a
> free
> > event and all are invited to attend.
> >
> > The event will be held as a Zoom webinar, and you can register to
> > participate here:
> >
> > https://word-of-the-year-2020.eventbrite.com
> >
> > You can also make up to five nominations when you register! Your
> > nominations should be some or all of the following:
> >
> > * widely used,
> > * new or newly popular,
> > * significant to the happenings of 2020,
> > * and/or indicative of public discourse and national preoccupations in
> 2020.
> >
> > Single words, phrases, compounds, catch phrases, hashtags, and other
> types
> > of brief written or spoken communication are accepted as nominations.
> >
> I didn't see a spot for nominations, so here's mine:
>
> "out of an abundance of caution". Every time a sports team canceled
> workouts because of a positive COVID-19 test, it was "out of an
> abundance of caution"
>
>
>

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