Last year, we asked you to choose the Word of the Year. By an overwhelming 5 to 1 majority vote, you awarded top honors to "truthiness," a word Stephen Colbert first introduced on the debut broadcast of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report in October 2005. And believe us; both Merriam-Webster and Mr. Colbert got a lot of mileage out of that particular choice—thank you!
This year, we've made the process a little easier. Below you'll find an alphabetical list of twenty words culled from frequent hits to Merriam-Webster OnLine and some popular submissions to Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary. We thought this would be an excellent way to cover the waterfront, since many great candidates for the 2007 Word of the Year are still in their infancy and haven't quite proven themselves worthy of being entered in the dictionary. Maybe you can help speed along their journey, who knows?
Once you've looked over the list of candidates, just select the word you think deserves to be the Word of the Year for 2007. We'll be taking your submissions through Friday, December 7. Be sure to check back with us later in December, to see if your choice wins!
Here are the candidates for Merriam-Webster's 2007 Word of the Year:
- apathetic
- babymoon
- blamestorm
- charlatan
- conundrum
- cruft
- eleemosynary
- hypocrite
- linkability
- melancholy
- Pecksniffian
- pretentious
- pugnacious
- quixotic
- sardoodledom
- sputum
- subpoena
- vanity sizing
- w00t
I personally think the word will be be ...facebook.
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