The first major collection was donated in 1984 by the American Dialect Society, a professional organization of linguistic scholars.

It became the official journal of the American Dialect Society in 1970.

In 1999, the American Dialect Society chose "she" as the word of the past millennium.

The American Dialect Society identified the term as one of the most useful of 2007.

Since 1991, the American Dialect Society has designated one or more words or terms to be the word of the year.

He is a member of the American Dialect Society.

Recent significant research in this area has been conducted by members of the American Dialect Society.

Who are you going to believe, the American Dialect Society or your own lying ears?

"Death panel" was named the most outrageous term of 2009 by the American Dialect Society.

The 2004 convention of the American Dialect Society named tomacco as the new word "least likely to succeed."