The Word of the Year is one that is rarely spoken. The word “hashtag” — the act of using a pound sign (#) followed by a word or phrase to tag a message on Twitter — was dubbed “Word of the Year 2012” ...
France Takes on Twitter, Bans the Word 'Hashtag' Not content to slap a 'Le' in front of the latest bit of English tech jargon, France's language police are insisting that the government replace the ...
The hashtag symbol, or #, has recently been named the UK’s children’s word of the year. See coverage of this story here. Children’s dictionary writers at Oxford University Press analysed 120,421 ...
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For a rusty chunk of Middle English first uttered in the 1300s, “lodestar” is making a surprise comeback. On Wednesday, the New York Times published a bombshell op-ed penned by an anonymous White ...
Every year, the American Dialect Society nominates and then votes on a word of the year, and for 2012 it's "hashtag." It beat out other nominated words like "YOLO," "Fiscal cliff," and "Gangnam style.