Awaiting the "Word of the Year"

If you drill down, the pivot may be the economic bailout, but don't blagojevich your bets by overlooking staycation or czar.

Word of the Year
Some overused phrases and words win our recognition as 2008's most hackneyed rhetoric.
January 3, 2009

On Jan. 9, the American Dialect Society, an assemblage of academic and amateur wordsmiths, will convene in San Francisco and announce 2008's Word of the Year.

Read the full story in the Los Angeles Times.