Interview on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show on the American Dialect Society’s choice of “because” as 2013 Word of the Year. (Jan. 8, 2014)
Ben Zimmer, chair of the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society and executive producer of Vocabulary.com and theVisual Thesaurus, discusses the American Dialect Society’s choice for word of the year: the new twitter-based use of the word “because.”
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