{"id":294,"date":"2006-12-10T20:45:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T03:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=294"},"modified":"2006-12-10T20:47:04","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T03:47:04","slug":"2006-word-of-the-year-truthiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"2006 Word Of The Year: Truthiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Merriam-Webster<\/a> has announced that the winner of their first Word of the Year<\/em> online survey is Stephen Colbert’s own “truthiness.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“By an overwhelming 5 to 1 majority vote, our visitors have awarded top honors to a word Colbert first introduced on ‘The Word’ segment of his debut broadcast on Comedy Central back in October 2005.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Colbert had this to say about having been recognized by this prestigious community of linguists:<\/p>\n

“Though I’m no fan of reference books and their fact-based agendas, I am a fan of anyone who chooses to honor me. And what an honor. Truthiness now joins the lexicographical pantheon with words like ‘squash,’ ‘merry,’ ‘crumpet,’ ‘the,’ ‘xylophone,’ ‘circuitous,’ ‘others’ and others.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Truthiness, as devoted Colbert fans know, is defined as:<\/p>\n

“the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Ironically, that is also how I would describe of viewers of Fox News. So in honor of Colbert being honored for his grammatical invention, I would like to announce one of my own. Here is the first synonym for truthiness: foxic. Foxic shares the same conceptual meaning as truthiness, but it can be used in more academic contexts, along with variations like foxicology and foxicism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Merriam-Webster has announced that the winner of their first Word of the Year online survey is Stephen Colbert’s own “truthiness.” “By an overwhelming 5 to 1 majority vote, our visitors have awarded top honors to a word Colbert first introduced on ‘The Word’ segment of his debut broadcast on Comedy Central back in October 2005.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-4K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":654,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=654","url_meta":{"origin":294,"position":0},"title":"The Stephen Colbert Campaign Catches Fire","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/23\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Since announcing his intention to seek the nomination of both parties for President of the United States, Stephen Colbert has demonstrated a deft media strategy (appearing on Meet the Press, Larry King, etc) and popular appeal. 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