By Tresten Yokotake Words are an essential aspect of our everyday lives. Without them, we’d be communicating with each other like drunken mimes in times square. There are those certain words that are constantly used and eventually become ingrained into the collective psyche. Identifying popular words can help capture the values and attitudes of populations at different points in time. Recently, the English department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa selected ‘in-person’ a