Word of the Year started as a lark and is now a small industry. Stefan Fatsis on how WOTYs win the honor.
Choosing the Word of the Year is No Easy Feat
Thirty-five years ago, the late English professor Allan Metcalf had an idea. “I was thinking that Time magazine has its Person of the Year,” he told me, “and why can’t we do for words what Time did…
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