American Dialect Society - Definition and Overview

According to its web site, the American Dialect Society, founded in 1889, "is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it."

Words of the year

Since 1991, the society has designated one or more words to be the "word of the year", the year's most important word or expression in public discussion. They have been:

• 1990: bushlips
• 1991: mother of all
• 1992: not!
• 1993: information superhighway
• 1994: cyber, morph
• 1995: web, newt
• 1996: Mom
• 1997: millennium bug
• 1998: e-
• 1999: Y2K
• 2000: chad
• 2001: 9-11
• 2002: weapons of mass destruction
• 2003: metrosexual

External links

• American Dialect Society home page (http://www.americandialect.org/)
• American Dialect Society: Words of the Year (http://www.americandialect.org/woty.html)

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