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04: Inside the Word of the Year vote

Jan 16, 2017
Discover the inside scoop of the Word of the Year vote, including categories and politics, while exploring offerings from other organizations. Dive into the tension between the American Dialect Society and African-American English. Learn about the influence of Twitter on the word of the year criteria. Find out why 'democracy sausage' was chosen as the Australian Word of the Year and ponder the complicated nature of defining words in linguistics.
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