The hashtag symbol, or #, has recently been named the UK’s children’s word of the year. See coverage of this story here. Children’s dictionary writers at Oxford University Press analysed 120,421 ...

OXFORD, England, May 28 (UPI) --The publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary dubbed hashtag symbol "#" as the children's word of the year. The Oxford University Press said the hashtag symbol was ...

Social media has reached a certain level of popularity that is has also become so powerful nowadays. It is not just a special symbol for number or pound, but also a way to make a certain thing trend ...

In its 23rd annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted ‘hashtag’ as the word of the year for 2012. Hashtag refers to the practice used on Twitter for marking topics or making ...

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” ...

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, ...

Not long after Oxford American Dictionary called “gif” its word of the year, the American Dialect Society has voted “Hashtag” (“#”) as the word of the year for 2012. And, although it may prompt many ...

Social media sensation hashtag has been named children's word of the year by Oxford University Press (OUP) here today. Children have extended its [#] use from a simple prefix or as a search term for ...