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The American Dialect Society has selected truthiness as its 2005 Word of the Year. Defined as putting those things you wish to be true ahead of what is known to be true, the term was recently popularized by satirist Stephen Colbert on his Comedy Central show The Colbert Report.
The Society also honored podcast as the Most Useful Word of the Year, whale tail (the exposure of the upper portion of a thong) as the Most Creative, K Fed (a nickname for Kevin Federline, the current husband of Britney Spears) as the Most Unnecessary, crotchfruit (a slang term for children, on the analogy of the term ‘fruit of one’s loins) the Most Outrageous, and sudoku (a number puzzle first popularized in Japan) as the Word Most Likely To Succeed.
Founded in 1889, the American Dialect Society is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by it. Another fine group of linguists, talking tirelessly on your behalf! (Reposted)
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