My #woty15 faves by category:
they, yasss, dadbod, fuckboy, swipe r/l, CRISPR, Berniementum, #JeSuisParis, 🍆
<a href="http://bit.ly/1n7JOfV" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://bit.ly/1n7JOfV (L)

.@OxfordWords Word of the Year is 😂 <a href="http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/11/word-of-the-year-2015-emoji" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/11/word-of-the-year-2015-emoji
More on linguistics of emoji <a href="http://allthingslinguistic.com/tagged/emoji" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://allthingslinguistic.com/tagged/emoji
#woty15

Look, I have no problem with an emoji being chosen as Word of the Year. I do have some quibbles with #WOTY15 being declared in mid-November.

Hey @americandialect @bgzimmer, what do you think about adding an emoji of the year subcategory to the ADS #woty15 at #LSA2016?

Singular they referring to a specific person wins #woty15!
Just going to leave this here: https://x.com/GretchenAMcC/status/678998066414944257

#woty2015 is showing up in twitter's autocomplete for me, but last year it was #woty14 so #woty15 would be more consistent @jhtripleu

I'm nominating singular "they" for Word of the Year #woty15. I explained why @qz <a href="http://qz.com/578937" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://qz.com/578937

PSA: It's #LSA2016 because the meeting is in 2016, but #woty15 because the word is of the previous year (and #woty2015 is woman of the year)

Singular they gets nominated for "most useful"! #woty15

Presiding over #woty15 nominations: @bgzimmer (featuring @GrantBarrett as typist) https://t.co/ZNj0UJvIjV

Big controversies at #woty15: do you spell it yass, yaas, yaass, yaasss, yaaaaasss, yasssssss...?

"Zero fucks given" is nominated for most useful by @mixedlinguist, comes with its own illustration #woty15 https://t.co/KcGGGG2PAx

Great example sentence from #woty15: "Netflix and chill...or nah?"

Eggplant emoji 🍆 nominated as "most euphemistic" #woty15

The best #woty15 nominations are the ones that get gasps of recognition from the crowd.

Here's the ballot for the upcoming #woty15 vote! #LSA2016 https://t.co/Eo6neDcPa0

Here's a digital copy of the #woty15 ballot (link to pdf) #LSA2016 <a href="http://www.americandialect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015-WOTY-nominations.pdf" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.americandialect.org/wp-content/uploads/2015-WOTY-nominations.pdf

The #woty15 gif-splanations by @GrantBarrett are AMAZING.

Now voting on the "most useful" category #woty15 https://t.co/sesrVkSGBH

Linguists very aware of what message we're sending to the world by selecting particular words #woty15

Nominations for "most creative" #woty15 #LSA2016 https://t.co/WRZ7i6X2iS

Nominees for "most unnecessary" (plus floor nomination for "thanks Obama") #woty15 https://t.co/T0ykjDJS7X

Obama saying "thanks Obama" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhY9Zxv1-oo #woty15

Nominees for "most outrageous" #woty15 (plus floor nomination for "white student union") https://t.co/en1FKkYjxR

"Our goal is to make @bgzimmer have to talk to the press about either fuckboy or schlonged" -@GrantBarrett #woty15