Topic: American Dialect Society

The 2012 Word of the Year: Hashtag

Flickr/Anna Creech

In a final vote of 118 to 99 in a runoff against marriage equality (winner of "Most Likely to Succeed"), at the annual Word of the Year event held by the American Dialect Society, hashtag took it home.

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