'Covid': The New Coinage That Defined 2020
Dec. 24, 2020 12:28 pm ET Linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer analyzes the origins of words in the news. Read previous columns here. Thirty years ago this month, the American Dialect Society began an annual tradition of selecting a Word of the Year. What began as a whimsical exercise on the model of Timeâs Person of the Year has grown in stature as dictionary publishers and other groups have followed suit. For a decade now, I have been overseeing the dialect societyâs Word of the Year selection as chair of the its New Words Committee. For this year, more than 300 attendee...
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