[Ads-l] Now Accepting Nominations for 2022 Word of the Year

[Ben Zimmer]

The New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society is now accepting
Word of the Year nominations for 2022. Nominations can be submitted via
Google Forms here:

https://forms.gle/grj5uUPqEMybEssu7

Please submit your nominations by 5 pm ET on Wed., Dec. 28.

This year’s Word of the Year vote will be held at the Hyatt Regency Denver
at the Colorado Convention Center in conjunction with the 2023 meetings of
the ADS and the Linguistic Society of America. All are welcome to attend
the in-person proceedings: a nominating session on Thursday, Jan. 5 (at 6-7
pm MST in Centennial A) and the final vote on Friday, Jan. 6 (at 5:30-7 pm
MST in Centennial E). LSA virtual attendees will also be able to join a
livestream and chat.

Some guidelines for making nominations:

* For the sake of the vote, “word” is broadly defined to include multiword
phrases, compounds, and idiomatic expressions that behave like single
lexical items.

* Ideal Word of the Year nominations are words which demonstrate widespread
usage by a large number of people, in a variety of contexts and situations,
and/or which reflect important events, people, places, ideas, or
preoccupations of English-speakers in North America in 2022.

* Nominated words do not have to be absolutely brand new but they should
have risen to prominence or reached some kind of peak of popularity in 2022.

Here is a list of all past Word of the Year nominees and winners in various
categories:

https://www.americandialect.org/woty/all-of-the-words-of-the-year-1990-to-present

--Ben Zimmer, Chair of the New Words Committee

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