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

[Laurence Horn]

For the non-existent category of Obscure Afflictionym, I nominate "stiff
person syndrome":

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/well/live/stiff-person-syndrome-symptoms-treatment.html

Unfortunately popularized by Celine Dion.  "Exquisitely rare", 1 in a
million.

LH

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 5:35 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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