As a lifelong logophile, I anxiously count
down to the annual announcements of
various publishers’ and organizations’
words of the year. The end of 2013
brought several gems: “selfie” (via
Oxford Dictionaries), “privacy”
(Dictionary.com), “because” (tapped by
the American Dialect Society as a result
of its new grammatical uses) and my
personal favorite: “science,” the word
selected by Merriam-Webster after
it showed the largest year-over-year
increase in lookups on the American
publisher’s online dictionary.
Peter M