TNN covers a wide range of topics, providing insightful articles on current events, trends, and developments across various fields. In its 23rd annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect ...

The hashtag, or '#', is a regular feature on Twitter and is making its way into the daily conversations of people who actually say things like "hashtag: awkward" out loud. No wonder then that it is ...

Research from the Oxford University Press has found that, for under-13s in the UK, using a hashtag helps them better connect to events online and express themselves. The overuse of hashtags has become ...

The Word of the Year is one that is rarely spoken. The word “hashtag” — the act of using a pound sign (#) followed by a word or phrase to tag a message on Twitter — was dubbed “Word of the Year 2012” ...

PARIS – The French government is redefining hashtag with a Gallic touch. The country that has an academy devoted solely to the use of the French language has given its official seal of approval to a ...

Do you use Hashtags on social media? If not, it is time to incorporate in your strategy! Hashtags have become omnipresent in social media and consumers are only using them more (I must mention some of ...

Well, I didn’t manage to get an emoticon of the year vote added to the American Dialect Society’s annual Word of the Year award (there’s always next year!), but we did end up with a new category ...

Hashtag was voted 'word of the year' by the American Dialect Society, proving that the tech world is closer to being fully embraced by the linguistic traditionalists. While the word has been around ...

American Dialect Society has voted hashtag as the 'word of the year'. The move proves that the tech world is closer to being fully embraced by the linguistic traditionalists. While the word has been ...

And you thought that Notre Dame/Alabama match-up was heated. Wait until you hear how things went down in Boston last weekend when members of the American Dialect Society—linguists, lexicographers, ...