"Truthiness" is word of the year.

[digitalwanderer]

I kid you not, "truthiness" has been voted the word of the year for 2006:

After 12 months of naked partisanship on Capitol Hill, on cable TV and in the blogosphere, the word of the year for 2006 is ... "truthiness."

The word - if one can call it that - best summed up 2006, according to an online survey by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster.

"Truthiness" was credited to Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, who defined it as "truth that comes from the gut, not books."

"We're at a point where what constitutes truth is a question on a lot of people's minds, and truth has become up for grabs," said Merriam-Webster president John Morse. "`Truthiness' is a playful way for us to think about a very important issue."

I will be buying a new dictionary next year just because of this.

 

[The_Wolf_Who_Cried_Boy]

Colbert, who once derided the folks at Springfield-based Merriam-Webster as the "word police" and a bunch of "wordinistas," was pleased.

Ironic the much used phrase Embiggen is not recognised, Colbert is pleased far, far to easily it would seem, how incromulent....

 

[nutball]

Ah that explains why it's been popping up here over the past few days.

Am it Internet meme tiem yet?!

 

[Crisidelm]

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