They also list the runners-up – those words which almost became word of the year, but somehow fell short. For Cambridge Dictionary, which bestows the honor to the word that had a marked increase in ...
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 ...
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 ...