By Roger J. Kreuz Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s ...
9, 2024, it selected “polarization” as its word of the year, which joins a list of 2024 winners from other dictionaries that ... digital life is influencing English language and culture.
Standard dictionaries do not address such matters, treating each word in isolation. R. M. W. Dixon puts forward a new approach to lexicography that involves grouping words into 'semantic sets', to ...
9, 2024, it selected “polarization” as its word of the year, which joins a list of 2024 winners from other dictionaries that ... digital life is influencing English language and culture.
Words that reflect the zeitgeist: 2024 was very online. Ever since the American Dialect Society first selected a Word of the Year at its 1990 conference, more than half a dozen English dictionaries ...