Y2K, Me and The American Dialect Society

The Y2K

This came up in a recent Google Alerts I have set to see when something with my name is published (okay, I know it sounds vain, but it's really so I can figure out where people might be back-linking or posting about my blog). A recent Alert included this post about the name of a drink in the cocktail calendar I published at the end of the last millenium (sounds impressive, huh?). The American Dialect Society, as part of their ongoing work, is perhaps looking to seek out how terms like "Y2K" entered the American vernacular.

Coincidentally - given the years I spent doing my small part to help undermine the American economy by advertising subprime mortgages - the word subprime is the Society's 2007 word of the year.