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19 December 2020

9:00 AM

19 December 2020

9:00 AM

Word-of-the-year of the Year

It’s that time of year once again – the season when dictionaries announce their choice for the Word of the Year. The concept was invented by the American Dialect Society back in January 1991 at their annual gathering of linguists and lexicographers. It was quickly picked up by dictionaries as an opportunity to promote their otherwise hard-to-promote products.

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