In its 23rd annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted ‘hashtag’ as the word of the year for 2012. Hashtag refers to the practice used on Twitter for marking topics or ...

The word “hashtag” was created for Twitter in 2007 by compounding the British term for the pound symbol and “tag,” Twitter’s mechanism for categorizing posts. New words are formed from “building ...

Research from the Oxford University Press has found that, for under-13s in the UK, using a hashtag helps them better connect to events online and express themselves. The overuse of hashtags has ...

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And you thought that Notre Dame/Alabama match-up was heated.Wait until you hear how things went down in Boston last weekend when members of the American Dialect Society—linguists, lexicographers ...

The word of the year is hashtag. #Hashtag, a word someone also dared to name a baby in 2012 ... so, I guess that cements it. In a final vote of 118 to 99 in a runoff against marriage equality ...

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Hashtag named word of the year for 2012 after #winning Dialectic Society's nomination. By DAILY MAIL REPORTER . Published: 14:12 EDT, 6 January 2013 | Updated: 14:59 EDT, 6 January 2013 ...

A joint study by Radio 2 and Oxford University has declared "hashtag" the word of the year for children - but what are the other top words, and do you even recognise them?

Every year, the American Dialect Society nominates and then votes on a word of the year, and for 2012 it’s “hashtag.” It beat out other nominated words like “YOLO,” “Fiscal cliff ...