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The word(s) of the year, sometimes capitalized as "Word(s) of the Year" and abbreviated "WOTY" (or "WotY"), refers to any of various assessments as to the most important word(s) or expression(s) in the public sphere during a specific year. The oldest of these, and the only one that is announced after the end of the calendar year, determined by a vote of independent linguists, and not tied to commercial interests, is the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year. However, various other organizations also announce Words of the Year for promotional purposes. The most popular and overused Words of the Year tend to appear on lists of words to avoid, such as the List of 'banished' words and phrases from Lake Superior State University and other organizations. ==American Dialect Society== Since 1991, the American Dialect Society (ADS) has designated one or more words or terms to be the "Word of the Year" in the United States: * 1990: ''bushlips'' (similar to "bullshit" – stemming from President George H. W. Bush's 1988 "Read my lips: no new taxes" broken promise) * 1991: ''mother of all'' (as in Saddam Hussein's foretold "Mother of all battles") * 1992: ''Not!'' (meaning "just kidding") * 1993: ''information superhighway'' * 1994: ''cyber'', ''morph'' (to change form) * 1995: ''web'' and ''(to) newt'' (to act aggressively as a newcomer, like Speaker Newt Gingrich during the Contract with America) * 1996: ''mom'' (as in "soccer mom") * 1997: ''millennium bug'' * 1998: ''e-'' (as in "e-mail" or "e-commerce") * 1999: ''Y2K'' * 2000: ''chad'' (from the 2000 presidential election controversy in Florida) * 2001: ''9-11'' * 2002: ''weapons of mass destruction'' (WMD) * 2003: ''metrosexual'' * 2004: ''red state'', ''blue state'', ''purple state'' (from the United States presidential election, 2004) * 2005: ''truthiness'' (popularized on ''The Colbert Report'')〔(American Dialect Society )〕 * 2006: ''plutoed'' (demoted or devalued, as happened to the former planet Pluto) * 2007: ''subprime'' (an adjective used to describe a risky or less than ideal loan, mortgage, or investment) * 2008: ''bailout'' (in the specific sense of the rescue by the government of companies on the brink of failure, including large players in the banking industry) * 2009: ''tweet'' (a short, timely message sent via the Twitter.com service, and verb, the act of sending such a message) * 2010: ''app'' (an abbreviated form of application, a software program for a computer or phone operating system) * 2011: ''occupy'' (verb or noun inspired from the Occupy movements of 2011) * 2012: ''hashtag'' (a word or phrase preceded by a hash symbol (#), used on Twitter to mark a topic or make a commentary) * 2013: ''because'' introducing a noun, adjective, or other part of speech (e.g., "because reasons," "because awesome"). * 2014: ''#blacklivesmatter'': hashtag used as protest over blacks killed at the hands of police (esp. Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY. Also Tamir Rice in Cleveland, OH). The society also chose a "Word of the 1990s" (''web''), "Word of the 20th Century" (''jazz''), "Word of the Past Millennium" (''she''), and "Word of the Decade (2000–2009)" (''google'' as a verb). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「word of the year」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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