Jan 22
8 min read
10 Words of the Year and What They Tell Us About Our Times
Words of the year are a powerful tool to navigate the present
On Dec. 19, 1990, about 40 members of the American Dialect Society, an organization studying the English language in North America, elected bushlips (a term used to refer to hypocritical political rhetoric) as the word that best represented that year. It was the…
