Ann Arbor plays major role in choosing words of decade
Is anyone surprised a town in love with books as Ann Arbor is playing a major part in choosing the words of the decade? (Check the end of the story to see the Ann Arborites contributions)Excerpt:BALTIMORE — “Anyone for ‘sexting’?” asks the 69-year-old man in the navy blazer and brown loafers. “Well if you give me your number,” comes a voice from the crowd, which erupts in laughter. Bunch of comedians, these linguists and lexicographers. They’ve crammed themselves in a dim, beige, boxy meeting room at the Hilton to vote on a word of the year and a word of the decade, a solemn task that falls to just about everyone these daysRead the rest of the story here.
Is anyone surprised a town in love with books as Ann Arbor is playing a major part in choosing the words of the decade? (Check the end of the story to see the Ann Arborites contributions)
Excerpt:
BALTIMORE — “Anyone for ‘sexting’?” asks the 69-year-old man in the navy blazer and brown loafers.
“Well if you give me your number,” comes a voice from the crowd, which erupts in laughter.
Bunch of comedians, these linguists and lexicographers. They’ve crammed themselves in a dim, beige, boxy meeting room at the Hilton to vote on a word of the year and a word of the decade, a solemn task that falls to just about everyone these days
Read the rest of the story here.
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