Among the New Words

of the Year proceedings were once again colocated with the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting.On January 5, 2024, in New York, Ben Zimmer, chair of the New Words Committee, and Kelly Wright, data czar of the New Words Committee, cohosted over 300 people live at the Sheraton Times Square Hotel to choose last year's Word of the Year.A video of these proceedings is available on the American Dialect Society's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbgnwDMj84w).This 34-year-old ADS tradition highlights the normal, ongoing, and entertaining facets of language change by deliberating together over the terms that best encapsulate the year.ADS's Word of the Year vote proudly holds the title as first-of-its-kind, inspiring similar annual efforts to mark the year's representative lexeme by other reference institutions such as the Oxford University Press, Macquarie Dictionary, and Merriam-Webster.American Speech, however, has used this feature-"Among the New Words"-to keep up with the pace of lexical progress since 1941.Originally conceived of as a supplemental stopgap to printed dictionaries, ATNW offers a quarterly accounting of ongoing lexicalization by providing depth and breadth to underdocumented topics or communities, most recently expressions of gender and sexuality (AS 98, no. 1 [Feb.2023]) and algospeak (AS 99, no. 1 [Feb.2024]).We consider new words in all senses of newness, seeking to capture linguistic prominence and innovation.In the last year, our installments have featured 14 guest writers, many of whom belong to the communities whose usage they are documenting, for example, the authors of the discursive treatments of terms like two spirit and T4T in our recent gender and sexuality installment.We have also begun training students to prepare lexicographic treatments for our citation paragraphs, and if contributing a discursive paragraph or learning a new professional skill seems appealing to you, please contact our