Michael Sebastian, “The Frontrunner for Word of the Year is ‘Occupy’” (PR Daily, Oct. 26, 2011)
Earlier this year, Ben Zimmer, the head of the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society, thought “winning” might be the word of the year.
“Remember when Charlie Sheen was a big deal and everyone was talking about ‘winning’?” Zimmer asked “On The Media” host Brooke Gladstone when he stopped by the radio show last Friday to talk dialect. “Back in that brief moment … we might have thought that ‘winning’ would be a winning word.”
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