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January 11, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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Other @americandialect.org Word of the Year winners:
INFORMAL WORD OF THE YEAR: 6-7: interjection containing little semantic content, originating from "Doot Doot (6 7)" by Skrilla
MOST CREATIVE WORD OF THE YEAR: reheat nachos, v: redo something (as music), often in an inferior fashion
INFORMAL WORD OF THE YEAR: 6-7: interjection containing little semantic content, originating from "Doot Doot (6 7)" by Skrilla
MOST CREATIVE WORD OF THE YEAR: reheat nachos, v: redo something (as music), often in an inferior fashion
January 11, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Other @americandialect.org Word of the Year winners:
INFORMAL WORD OF THE YEAR: 6-7: interjection containing little semantic content, originating from "Doot Doot (6 7)" by Skrilla
MOST CREATIVE WORD OF THE YEAR: reheat nachos, v: redo something (as music), often in an inferior fashion
INFORMAL WORD OF THE YEAR: 6-7: interjection containing little semantic content, originating from "Doot Doot (6 7)" by Skrilla
MOST CREATIVE WORD OF THE YEAR: reheat nachos, v: redo something (as music), often in an inferior fashion
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Other @americandialect.org Word of the Year winners:
MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED: chopped, adj: ugly, undesirable
POLITICAL WORD OF THE YEAR: icy conditions, n: coded phrase alerting that ICE has been spotted in a neighborhood
MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED: chopped, adj: ugly, undesirable
POLITICAL WORD OF THE YEAR: icy conditions, n: coded phrase alerting that ICE has been spotted in a neighborhood
January 11, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Other @americandialect.org Word of the Year winners:
MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED: chopped, adj: ugly, undesirable
POLITICAL WORD OF THE YEAR: icy conditions, n: coded phrase alerting that ICE has been spotted in a neighborhood
MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED: chopped, adj: ugly, undesirable
POLITICAL WORD OF THE YEAR: icy conditions, n: coded phrase alerting that ICE has been spotted in a neighborhood
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Other @americandialect.org Word of the Year winners:
MOST USEFUL: "that's AI": statement of distrust when determining that something presented as real (as an image) is in fact Al-generated (104)
MOST USEFUL: "that's AI": statement of distrust when determining that something presented as real (as an image) is in fact Al-generated (104)
January 11, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Other @americandialect.org Word of the Year winners:
MOST USEFUL: "that's AI": statement of distrust when determining that something presented as real (as an image) is in fact Al-generated (104)
MOST USEFUL: "that's AI": statement of distrust when determining that something presented as real (as an image) is in fact Al-generated (104)
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There was an interesting talk at the last @americandialect.org meeting in Philadelphia presenting some research about just where the freeway arthrousness isogloss in California lies. IIRC it's south of Fresno.
July 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
There was an interesting talk at the last @americandialect.org meeting in Philadelphia presenting some research about just where the freeway arthrousness isogloss in California lies. IIRC it's south of Fresno.
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It’s us, hi, we’re the problem, it’s we! And yes, we do know the meaning and etymology, and yes, people are really using it in a G-rated way across the internet. Press release here: americandialect.org/2024-word-of...
2024 Word of the Year Is “Rawdog” - American Dialect Society
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown–Jan. 10—The American Dialect Society, in its 35th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected rawdog as the Word of the Year for 2024. More than three hundred attendees took...
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January 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It’s us, hi, we’re the problem, it’s we! And yes, we do know the meaning and etymology, and yes, people are really using it in a G-rated way across the internet. Press release here: americandialect.org/2024-word-of...