ADS: Word of the Year

Breaking News from Boston, MA!!!!!

The American Dialect Society selects its slate of words of note for the 2012 year.

With the help of several hundred linguists, the American Dialect Society debated, on January 4, 2013, the niceties of semantics and popular opinions.

See here for the full slate and the winners, including word of the year:
http://www.americandialect.org/woty