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You're listening to Away with Words, I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett and Grant.

It's that time of year when various organizations start declaring their choices for word of the year.

Now you're a member of the American Dialect Society, that group of linguists who chose truthiness and Pluto

for the past couple of years, but really Grant, how seriously are we supposed to take this whole word of the year thing anyway

It's incredibly important. You'll be tested on it later no really no no it's a whimsical

I can't speak well, I actually can't speak for a couple of of the dictionary publishers. All of these Word of the Year things aren't to be

taken too seriously. None of the people, including the American Dialects study,

none of these groups, are official august bodies of

pointy-headed intellectuals, you know, inducting words into the English language.

There's just no such thing.

All they are is a bunch of people goofing off and kind of just bring into light some words that they found throughout the last 12 months that are worth paying attention to.

Well, what are some of the big contenders for a word of the year this year?

I don't know about big contenders, but I have my own list.

I have 60-some-odd words as a matter of fact that I'm going to nominate in various ways in various places.

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