While the year provided us with enough words to form a glossary, a few in particular were powerful enough to earn the "Word of the Year" title. Now, thanks to The American Dialect Society (ADS ...

There are even comedic sketches that poke fun at society's disapproval of white people saying “n-----,” like this one — where a white person points to a black man to say the N-word for him ...

Last week, the American Dialect Society announced the results of its vote for 2022’s Word of the Year ... FAFO is undeniably fun to say. There’s that alliteration, the seeming imperative ...

It’s not fake news. The American Dialect Society’s 2017 Word of the Year is: “fake news.” The society chose the phrase on Jan. 5, which they defined as “disinformation or falsehoods pres ...

By Sam Corbin Sam Corbin reported this story in New York, from the American Dialect Society’s annual words-of-the-year vote. “So here’s blorbo,” said a man to my left, pointing to a word ...

Many outfits choose a “word of the year” before the year is actually over. But not the American Dialect Society, the organization that started the tradition. Its members wait until January to ...

The American Dialect Society waits until the year is completely finished before holding its vote for the word of the year, a lively event, now in its 24th year, that was held last night.

For the 25th year, the American Dialect Society has chosen a word of the year by a live and occasionally rowdy vote in a roomful of linguists at their annual conference. Here are some of the words ...