"[D]edicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other langu…"

"Today, if somebody comes up with a new phrase or word, it is spread instantly. Instead of weeks and months, now it ta…"

"You'd have to ask Bill Clinton or Bob Dole why it was so important. We are merely recognizing its importance."

"The term goes back 50 years, but you can't turn on the radio or television without hearing about 'weapons of mass des…"

"There is no scientific method of determining which words or phrases will be named words-of-the-year. It's kind of lik…"

"Language changes, and you cannot stop it. It's just like any other part of human culture."

"We dismissed one potential problem—that newspapers wouldn't print the term if it won—on the grounds that we shouldn't…"

"When you have investment companies losing billions of dollars over something like bundled subprime loans, then you ha…"

"Yeah, that was a surprise to me. I thought it might be something like texting or blog, but people decided that Google…"

"It's a very old word, but over the course of just a few months it took on another life and moved in new and unexpecte…"