Chrysti The Wordsmith: American Dialect Society - 4

Greetings and welcome to Christie the wordsmith. When the American Dialect Society an association of scholarly word watchers gathers for its annual meeting each January the members vote for the word of the year. A term or phrase that best captures the discourse of the prior 12 months. The American Dialect Society selected tweet as the word of the Year for 2009 with Dracula sneeze as the most creative word. The American Dialect Society also surveys new coinage is from the past year to ascertain by its standards the most euphemistic word or phrase of that year. And the winner in this category as chosen by members of the American Dialect Society is hike the Appalachian Trail to escape into a dalliance with an illicit lover after a claim made by South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford who went to Argentina to visit his mistress and not as he had stated to the Appalachians to take a five day stroll. Another American Dialect Society lexical category is word most likely to succeed and

that for last year is 20 tan an alternate pronunciation of the year 2000 and tan in the category of words least likely to succeed. We find the winners in ATI's or noughties two terms to designate the decade between 2000 and 2009 the Aussies are Nazis and Polly wood referring to stars who are politically active. I'm Christie the wordsmith from Montana State University in Bozeman Christie the wordsmith a sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry. Zoot web dot com.