http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=31 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 21 May 2013 19:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=31&cpage=1#comment-3054 Dr. Goodword’s Language Blog » Blog Archive » Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year: ‘Truthiness’ Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:13:19 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=31#comment-3054 [...] Merriam-Webster’s marketing team just posted the M-W word of the year, Steven Colbert’s comic invention, truthiness. Even though the word appears 1.6 million times on the Web and, according to M-W spokespeople it was the 5-1 choice of those who chose to vote, I find the choice puzzling. [...] [...] Merriam-Webster’s marketing team just posted the M-W word of the year, Steven Colbert’s comic invention, truthiness. Even though the word appears 1.6 million times on the Web and, according to M-W spokespeople it was the 5-1 choice of those who chose to vote, I find the choice puzzling. [...]

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