Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2006
By an overwhelming 5 to 1 majority vote, our visitors have awarded top honors to a word [Stephen] Colbert first introduced on "The Word" segment of his debut broadcast on Comedy Central back in October 2005. Soon after, this word was chosen as the 16th annual Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society, and defined by them as "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true."
Merriam-Webster's #1 Word of the Year for 2006 based on votes from visitors to our Web site:
1. 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)
Here is a list of the other words in the Top Ten List:
A very political list, I'd say.
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