The word of the year: “A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects 2005 is “truthiness,” defined as the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts.” (CNN)
It is not a new phenomenon — viz. ‘spin’ — but the fact that we want to encapsulate the concept in a word gives it the prominence that it deserves after six years of a dysadministration living in its own distorted reality and trying so hard to foist it off on the rest of the world.
