Johnson, the language blog of The Economist, on Word of the Year selections. (Dec. 27, 2011)
It’s also the time of the year when dictionary-writers and lexicographers pick a Word of the Year. I’ve admitted that I’m not a Word of the Day person, nor am I particularly a Word of the Year person, with a polite and apologetic tip of the hat to a Johnson friend, Ben Zimmer, the New Words supremo at the American Dialect Society.
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