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Word of the Year - "Truthiness"

Posted by Zonk on from the oh-that-loveable-rascal dept.

KingSkippus writes "Stephen Colbert calls it 'truth that comes from the gut, not books.' Merriam-Webster calls it their 2006 Word of the Year. The word, first introduced [Windows media] on 'The Word' segment of The Colbert Report, won by a five-to-one margin. In spite of Colbert's ironic dismissal of dictionaries and other reference books, will Colbert's coined word actually be added to those books? With media outlets like CNN and MSNBC covering it, the idea may very well have truthiness."

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  1. bollocks by dwater · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Truth is truth, no matter where it comes from, and it has no 'degrees' other than 100% (or 0%, I suppose), so there's no 'ness' about it, since that implies an entire range.

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    Max.