It’s time to look at the words that made the news last year.
Forget twerking, and stop taking selfies, because this year’s winner was truly momentous.
There’s even someone special to take us through it: Ben Zimmer of the American Dialect Society talks to our resident linguist Daniel Midgley on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Here are all the words:
http://www.americandialect.org/because-is-the-2013-word-of-the-year
Because was the clear winner.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/08/the-absolute-final-last-word-of-the-year-because/
Feel like sitting in on the voting? Here’s the video of all the shenanigans at the American Dialect Society.
Catch up with Ben Zimmer
http://benzimmer.com/
Tyler Schnoebelen of Idibon determines the value of X for ‘because X’ tweets.
http://idibon.com/innovating-innovation/
Twerk should be in the dictionary.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2013/09/04/twerk_definition_of_course_it_s_a_real_word_and_of_course_it_should_be_in.html
Selfie was huge, too.
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/11/19/selfie-australian-slang-term-named-international-word-year
The Selfie Olympics
https://imgur.com/a/deovZ?gallery
Catfish
http://www.capthemagazine.com/catfish/
Such doge. Wow.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/31/5248762/doge-meme-rescue-dog-wow
The schmefix
http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/003104.html/
The Internet K-Hole
http://internetkhole.blogspot.com.au/
