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`January 8th, 2011 Comments Off on “App” voted 2010 word of the year by the American Dialect Society
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`WYNDHAM GRAND HOTEL, PITTSBURGH—JAN.7—In its 21st annual wordsofthe year vote, the
`American Dialect Society voted “app” (noun, an abbreviated form of application, a software program for a
`computer or phone operating system) as the word ofthe year for 2010. (Read the entire press release.)
`UPDATE: Photos from the event.)
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`Presiding at the Jan. 7 voting session were ADS Executive Secretary Allan Metcalf of MacMurray College, and
`Ben Zimmer, chair of the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society and executive producer of
`VisualThesaurus.com. Zimmeris also the “On Language” columnist for the New York Times Magazine.
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`“App has been around for ages, but with millions of dollars of marketing muscle behind the slogan “‘There’s an
`app for that,’ plus the arrival of ‘app stores’ for a wide spectrum of operating systems for phones and computers,
`app really explodedin the last 12 months,” Zimmersaid. “One of the most convincing arguments from the
`voting floor was from a woman whosaid that even her grandmotherhad heardofit.”
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`Word of the Year is interpreted in its broader sense as “vocabulary item’”—notjust words but phrases. The words
`or phrases do not have to be brand-new, but they have to be newly prominentor notablein the pastyear, in the
`mannerof Time magazine’s Person ofthe Year.
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`The vote is the longest-running such vote anywhere, the only one not tied to commercialinterests, and the word-
`of-the-year event up to which all others lead. It is fully informed by the members’ expertise in the study of
`words,butit is far from a solemn occasion. Membersin the 121-year-old organization include linguists,
`lexicographers, etymologists, grammarians, historians, researchers, writers, authors, editors, professors,
`university students, and independent scholars. In conducting the vote, they act in fun and do not pretend to be
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`officially inducting words into the English language. Instead they are highlighting that language changeis
`normal, ongoing, and entertaining.
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`In a companionvote, sibling organization the American NameSociety voted “Eyafjalljokul” as Nameof the
`Year for 2010 in its seventh annual name-of-the-year contest. It’s the name of an Icelandic volcano which
`spewed enoughashthis year to severely disrupt flights across Europe. (Read the entire press release.)
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