American Dialect Society

American Dialect Society News

• 2020 Word of the Year is “Covid”
• Nominations for Words of the Year 2020
• Register for the free 2020 Virtual Word-of-the-Year Livestream Vote
• CANCELED: American Dialect Annual Conference in San Francisco Jan. 7-10, 2021
• 2019 Word of the Year is “(My) Pronouns,” Word of the Decade is Singular “They”