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American Dialect Society
Saturday, January 08, 2011

"App" voted 2010 word of the year by the
American Dialect Society (UPDATED)
WYNDHAM GRAND HOTEL, PITTSBURGH—JAN. 7—In its 21st annual
words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted "app" (noun, an
abbreviated form of application, a software program for a computer or phone
operating system) as the word of the year for 2010. (Read the entire press
release.) UPDATE: Photos from the event.)
Presiding at the Jan. 7 voting session were ADS Executive Secretary Allan
Metcalf of MacMurray College, and Ben Zimmer, chair of the New Words
Committee of the American Dialect Society and executive producer of
VisualThesaurus.com . Zimmer is also the "On Language" columnist for the
New York Times Magazine.
"App has been around for ages, but with millions of dollars of marketing
muscle behind the slogan 'There's an app for that,' plus the arrival of 'app
stores' for a wide spectrum of operating systems for phones and computers,
app really exploded in the last 12 months," Zimmer said. "One of the most
convincing arguments from the voting floor was from a woman who said that
even her grandmother had heard of it."
Word of the Year is interpreted in its broader sense as "vocabulary item"—
not just words but phrases. The words or phrases do not have to be brandnew, but they have to be newly prominent or notable in the past year, in the
manner of Time magazine's Person of the Year.
The vote is the longest-running such vote anywhere, the only one not tied to
commercial interests, and the word-of-the-year event up to which all others
lead. It is fully informed by the members' expertise in the study of words, but
it is far from a solemn occasion. Members in the 121-year-old organization
include linguists, lexicographers, etymologists, grammarians, historians,
researchers, writers, authors, editors, professors, university students, and
independent scholars. In conducting the vote, they act 'in fun and do not
pretend to be officially inducting words into the English language. Instead

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"App" voted 2010 word of the year by the
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they are highlighting that language change is normal, ongoing, and
entertaining.
In a companion vote, sibling organization the American Name Society voted
"Eyafjalljokul" as Name of the Year for 2010 in its seventh annual name-ofthe-year contest. It's the name of an Icelandic volcano which spewed enough
ash this year to severely disrupt flights across Europe. (Read the entire
press release.)
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Contacts for Word of the Year:

American
Dialect Society

Allan Metcalf, Executive Secretary
[e-mail]
English Department
MacMurray College
Jacksonville, Illinois
62650-2590

— Ben Zimmer, Chair of the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society, executive
producer of the Visual Thesaurus, http://visualthesaurus.com and "On Language" columnist, The
New York Times Magazine. [e-mail] , [phone].
— Grant Barrett, co-host of A Way with Words, a nationwide public radio program about
language, and vice president of communication and tech for the American Dialect Society,
[e-mail] , cell [phone].
— Allan Metcalf, Execuive Secretary, American Dialect Society, author of OK: The Improbable
Story of America's Greatest Word, professor of English at MacMurray College,
[e-mail] , [phone]
Contact for Name of the Year: Cleveland K. Evans, Past President, American Name
Society, [e-mail] , [phone]
(For immediate release)

January 7, 2011

"App" 2010 Word of the Year,
as voted by American Dialect Society
WYNDHAM GRAND HOTEL, PITTSBURGH—JAN. 7—In its 21st annual words of
the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted "app" (noun, an abbreviated form of
application, a software program for a computer or phone operating system) as the word of
the year for 2010.
Presiding at the Jan. 7 voting session were ADS Executive Secretary Allan Metcalf
of MacMurray College, and Ben Zimmer, chair of the New Words Committee of the
American Dialect Society and executive producer of VisualThesaurus.com . Zimmer is also
the "On Language" columnist for the New York Times Magazine.
"App has been around for ages, but with millions of dollars of marketing muscle
behind the slogan 'There's an app for that,' plus the arrival of 'app stores' for a wide
spectrum of operating systems for phones and computers, app really exploded in the last 12
months," Zimmer said. "One of the most convincing arguments from the voting floor was
from a woman who said that even her grandmother had heard of it."
Word of the Year is interpreted in its broader sense as "vocabulary item"—not just
words but phrases. The words or phrases do not have to be brand-new, but they have to be
newly prominent or notable in the past year, in the manner of Time magazine's Person of
the Year.
The vote is the longest-running such vote anywhere, the only one not tied to
commercial interests, and the word-of-the-year event up to which all others lead. It is fully
informed by the members' expertise in the study of words, but it is far from a solemn
occasion. Members in the 121-year-old organization include linguists, lexicographers,
etymologists, grammarians, historians, researchers, writers, authors, editors, professors,

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university students, and independent scholars. In conducting the vote, they act in fun and
do not pretend to be officially inducting words into the English language. Instead they are
highlighting that language change is normal, ongoing, and entertaining.
In a companion vote, sibling organization the American Name Society voted
"Eyafjalljokul" as Name of the Year for 2010 in its seventh annual name-of-the-year
contest. It's the name of an Icelandic volcano which spewed enough ash this year to severely
disrupt flights across Europe.

AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY VOTE TALLIES
The number after each nomination is the number of votes it received. Numbers
separated by slash marks indicate a run-off. Voting totals for each category might not be
identical because the number of voters might have changed for each category.
WORD OF THE YEAR
app: application program for a computer or phone operating system. As in "there's an app for
that," an advertising slogan for the iPhone. 52/69 WINNER
nom: Onomatopoetic form connoting eating, esp. pleasurably. Can be used as an interjection or
noun to refer to delicious food. 34/51.
junk as used in junk shot (attempt to fix BP oil spill), junk status (Greece's credit rating), don't
touch my junk (protest against TSA pat-down procedure). 17
Wikileaks as proper noun, common noun, and verb. 12
trend verb: to exhibit a burst of online buzz. 12
MOST USEFUL
nom Onomatopoetic form connoting eating, esp. pleasurably. Can be used as an interjection or
noun to refer to delicious food. 49/72 WINNER
fat-finger verb: to mistype, as by accidentally striking more than one key on a keyboard/pad. 16
junk junk shot (attempt to fix BP oil spill), junk status (Greece's credit rating), don't touch my junk
(protest against TSA pat-down procedure). 46/42
vuvuzela: South African plastic trumpet used by fans during the FIFA World Cup matches.
MOST CREATIVE
prehab Preemptive enrollment in a rehab facility to prevent relapse of an abuse problem. 45/65
WINNER
-sauce Intensive suffix, as in awesome-sauce 'great' and lame-sauce 'stupid'. 37/51
spillion An immense number, especially of gallons of oil in the Gulf spill. Also spillionaire,
person made rich by money from BP's spill cleanup fund. 29
phoenix firm A troubled company that reemerges under a new name. 13
MOST UNNECESSARY
refudiate Blend of refute and repudiate used by Sarah Palin on Twitter. 72/WINNER
ironic moustache Facial hair worn as a statement of retro hipsterdom. 6
star whacker Imagined celebrity killer (alleged by actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi). 16
hipsterdom: the state of being hip beyond all recognition. So hip you're unhip. 14
MOST OUTRAGEOUS
gate rape Pejorative term for invasive new airport pat-down procedure. 55/67 WINNER
terror baby Baby born to a terrorist family on U.S. soil in order to establish citizenship. 52/56

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