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"The American Dialect Society has named \"hashtag\" as the word of the year, beating out \"Gangnam Style,\" \"YOLO\" and \"fiscal cliff,\" among others. Or, to put it another way: #winning.\nEach year, the group nominates a series of words and phrases, and then votes to decide the word of the year. It also determines the top word in other categories, including: most useful, outrageous, unnecessary and creative. \"Hashtag\" is hardly a new word, but the judges concluded that it really came to prominence in 2012.\n\"This was the year when the hashtag became a ubiquitous phenomenon in online talk,\u00E2\u20AC\u009D Ben Zimmer, chair of the ADS' New Words Committee, said in a statement. \u00E2\u20AC\u0153In the Twittersphere and elsewhere, hashtags have created instant social trends, spreading bite-sized viral messages on topics ranging from politics to pop culture.\"\nThis isn't the first time an Internet term has gotten the nod: \"Tweet\" was declared word of the year by the group in 2010, while \"Google\" was then-named the word of the decade. In a nod to the worldwide Occupy movements, the group declared \"Occupy\" to be last year's word of the year.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, clasesdeperiodismo"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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