The Word of the Year
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Merriam-Webster Online comes their number one choice for Word for the Year for 2006:
truthiness (noun)
1: "truth that comes from the gut, not books" (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," October 2005)
2: "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true" (American Dialect Society, January 2006)
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Posted by DaveH at December 9, 2006 9:21 PM