[lg policy] The Web of Language 2012 Word of the Year is #hashtag

[Baron, Dennis E]

The Web of Language

The 2012 Word of the Year is #hashtag


#hashtag is the 2012 Web of Language Word of the Year. That’s #hashtag, complete with the #, or ‘hash,’ also called the ‘number sign’ or ‘pound sign’—used in computerese to signal a comment, instruction, or bit of metadata, but made popular on Twitter to identify keywords or concepts.

Read the full post on the Web of Language: http://bit.ly/weblan


Dennis Baron
Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
University of Illinois
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801

office: 217-305-0067
fax: 217-333-4321

http://www.illinois.edu/goto/debaron<http://illinois.edu/goto/debaron>

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