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  1. Word Routes

     The Word of the Year is... "Bailout"!
    Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Greetings, everyone! I've just come back from San Francisco, where I attended the American Dialect Society's annual meeting (held in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America). As is the custom, the linguists and lexicographers in attendance took a break from their scholarly presentations to have some fun selecting the Word of the Year for 2008. This time around, bailout emerged as a powerful frontrunner, and sure enough it ultimately proved to be the winner.

  2. Word Routes

     "Tweet" Named Word of the Year, "Google" Word of the Decade
    Sat Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2010
    After much good-natured debate at its annual meeting in Baltimore, the American Dialect Society has made its selections for Word of the Year and Word of the Decade. As proof that we're truly living in a digital age, the winner of Word of the Year for 2009 was tweet ("to post an update on Twitter") and the Word of the Decade for 2000-09 was google (the generic verb meaning "to use Google or another search engine").

  3. Evasive Maneuvers

     French Pastry and Other Limits-Exceeding Lunacy
    Wed Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The NBA playoffs have long been the highlight of my television year, and like so many other boob tube productions, they produce their share of euphemisms.

  4. Word Routes

     "App" Wins as 2010 Word of the Year
    Mon Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2011
    Once again the American Dialect Society has performed its not-so-solemn duty in anointing a Word of the Year (aka WOTY), and the 2010 winner is app, as in, "There's an app for that." I'm just back from Pittsburgh, where the ADS held its annual meeting in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America, and I've got the full report.

  5. Candlepower

     Weird Words from the Corporatese Lexicon
    Tue Aug 03 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    English is my native tongue, language is my beat, and corporate America is where I earn my daily crust. Nevertheless, every so often I encounter an English word — in a corporate memo, speech, or email — that mystifies me. I've seen the word before; I've just never seen it used that way. I've always assumed the word meant one thing; here it obviously means something very different.

  6. Department of Word Lists

     Les West Side Misérables
    Wed Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2012
    Once again award-winning writer and educator Bob Greenman takes us on a journey through words selected from More Words That Make a Difference, a delightful book illustrating word usage with passages from the Atlantic Monthly. Here Bob finds himself navigating the seamy underbelly of Manhattan parking.

  7. Teachers at Work

     A Daily Vocabulary Bonanza for Teachers
    Tue Feb 23 00:00:00 EST 2010
    The New York Times is a vocabulary-learning bonanza for students at all levels, employing a larger number of what teachers would call "vocabulary words" than any other American publication. And inside The Times, every day, there's a bonanza within that bonanza, the succinct and telegraphic television listings page, whose capsule movie reviews employ more vocabulary — including words, terms and expressions — than any other page in the paper. And quite enjoyably, too.

  8. Word Routes

     "And One More Thing": The Insanely Great Language of Steve Jobs
    Fri Oct 07 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    After the passing of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on Wednesday, the outpouring of sympathy on Twitter was overwhelming, with an estimated 10,000 tweets per second. Several of the top "trending topics" over the following day were Jobs-related, marked by the hashtags #ThankYouSteve, #iSad, #ThinkDifferent, and #StayHungry. Even in death, Jobs's unique and spirited way with words was palpable.

  9. Book Nook

     Teaching English as a Foreign Language
    Mon May 18 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    In this excerpt from Active Literacy Across the Curriculum: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening, Heidi Hayes Jacobs advocates developing students' "word power" by borrowing methods from the foreign language classroom.

  10. Candlepower

     Plimsolls on Offer: British Borrowings in U.S. Marketing Speak
    Wed Nov 19 00:00:00 EST 2014
    The old adage about American and England being "two nations divided by a common language" — wrongly attributed to George Bernard Shaw, who never said or wrote it — may still hold true in some quarters. But in the language of U.S. commerce, it's fast losing its relevance. Terms that once seemed quaintly Olde English to Americans — from "bespoke" to "stockist" — are fast becoming the new normal.
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