The Word of the Year is... "App"According to the American Dialect Society, which is holding its annual meeting at the Wyndham Grand in Pittsburgh this week, the Word of the Year that bests sums up 2010 is: app.
App is short for an application program for a compuiter or operating system.
The word was chosen in a vote tonight of about 150 linguists and lexicographers after two days of debate that began with a list of 33 words, narrowed it down to nine winners in various categories (most euphemistic and election terms, for example) before choosing the winner...
