nwav
/ˈɛn.weɪv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Initialism of New Ways of Analyzing Variation: an annual academic conference in sociolinguistics.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Susan Tamasi is Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Program in Linguistics, Emory University, Atlanta. She has presented at NWAV, AAAL, Sociolinguistics Symposium, and American Dialect Society."
- "The researchers who had sent in their papers were frustrated – three NWAVs without publications."
- "One of the problems of NWAV reviewing is that it is carried out by self-declared experts with basically no conference organizer oversight, veto, or corrective. Everyone who went to NWAV can self-identify their areas of expertise and significantly affect the inclusion or rejection of a given paper."
- "I found so many enthusiastic supporters at various NWAVs, too many to name, and I will always be grateful to have “grown up” in this dynamic, challenging environment of researchers."
Etymology
The pronunciation comes from NWAVE, the initials of the name of earlier iterations of the conference, New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English.