American Dialect Society has voted hashtag as the 'word of the year'.

While the word has been around for decades, the language group decided that it truly exerted its influence this year, the Daily Mail reports.
In a statement, Chair of the New Words Committee Ben Zimmer said that this was the year when the hashtag became a ubiquitous phenomenon in online talk.
According to the report, Hashtags initially became popular on Twitter, where users would put them within tweets to make a larger comment or joke.
From there, it started spreading to Facebook and everyday speech.
A tipping point came when the only three words used on the cover of Newsweek magazine's final print issue were preceded by a hashtag, making the cross over from web to print complete, the report said.
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