Ruth Walker, “A New Word of the Year Seizes Its Place?” (Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 12, 2011)
In an “On the Media” interview, Ben Zimmer, head of the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society, said: Occupy “is this extremely useful word for the movement because as it spread[s] to other cities, it can very easily just work as a kind of a template. Occupy blank, Occupy the-name-of-your-town-here….”
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