The Merriam-Webster dictionary has announced the 2006 word of the year, and that is truthiness n., which may mean 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).
Next to it is the word Google, vt, meaning “to use the Google search engine to obtain information about (as a person) on the World Wide Web.”
2005 word of the year: integrity
2004 word of the year: blog
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