Most news reports of the American Dialect Society's annual "Words of the Year" vote neglect the year's most outrageous term.
Word(s) of the year: Red state, blue state, purple state.
Word of the millenium (!): she. Apparently there was no English pronoun to describe women until a thousand years ago; women were addressed as "heo," or the male plural pronoun. Whoa!
American Dialect Society: Words of the Year
Thursday, January 13, 2005
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