2005 Word of the Year
Well, the results are in. The American Dialect Society, an organization of linguists, has picked its top new words of 2005. As a wordsmith, I was pretty impressed and I have to say that the only ones I've actually used are "podcast" (although I'm slow and never used it until 2006) and "Cruisazy."The reason I even mentioned this is because I LOVE the actual winner of this year's "competition." Here it is:
Truthiness (noun): the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts; truthy, not facty.
The example they gave was in politics, but I've seen a lot of truthiness this year. I just didn't know what to call it until right now.
Want to see what else made the list? The whole article is here.
posted by Laura at
9:01 PM
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Never in my life heard of that, but as of tomorrow, i'm bringing it into my vocabulary
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Beth, at
1/07/2006 9:10 PM
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