Lovers of the English language are coming together to select the coolest word or phrase. Last year, app was voted the word of the year by the American Dialect Society. Now that group of etymologists, ...

The Word of the Year is one that is rarely spoken. The word “hashtag” — the act of using a pound sign (#) followed by a word or phrase to tag a message on Twitter — was dubbed “Word of the Year 2012” ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link In 1990, the American Dialect Society named its first "word of the year" — a word (or phrase) chosen by a group of linguists and professors that ...

For whatever reason, today’s world is infatuated with anything short, sweet and to the point. From logos evolving into less intricate yet equally recognizable designs to sites like Buzzfeed or ...

The American Dialect Society—the same august, century-old body that brought us “-ussy” as its 2022 Word Of The Year—has gone ahead and once again decided to choose chaos, naming “rawdog” its WOTY for ...

The American Dialect Society named "tender-age shelter" the 2018 "Word of the Year." The term was used by the US government to describe facilities designed to house babies and young children who have ...

Fake Donald Trump tweets are seen in a Twitter timeline on 27 Friday, 2017. In China a site that generates fake tweets that look as if they were generated by US president Donald Trump are being used ...

English teachers may have to perform some damage control in American classrooms in 2014, because the American Dialect Society has chosen “because” as 2013’s word of the year, because…well, just ...

Unlike most dictionaries of jazz and blues language, of which bandleader Cab Calloway's Hepsters Dictionary and the glossary included in clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow's Really The Blues, both published in ...

Later this week the American Dialect Society will announce its word of the Year. Renee Montagne discusses word contenders with linguist Ben Zimmer, who is the language columnist for The Wall Street ...