Interview on Minnesota Public Radio’s “Midmorning” about the notable words of 2011. (Dec. 30, 2011)
Each year, the American Dialect Society chooses a word of the year. Lexicographers Grant Barrett and Ben Zimmer join us to discuss the year in words. Based on the American Dialect Society’s criteria what words were demonstrably new or newly popular in 2011?
(Show page, audio, related Word Routes column, Boston Globe column)