American Dialect Society
The American Dialect Society is a North American society of scholars. It was founded in 1889 and has taken on the task of researching the English spoken in the U.S. and Canada as well as its influences on other languages or influences from other languages of North America. The ADS is also working on the Dictionary of American Regional English and the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada with. Since 1990, she chooses a word of the year.