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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMerriam-Webster Issues Plea About Fascism
The good people at Merriam-Webster practically begged users to search for any word other than fascism so the dictionary company could avoid making it the word of 2016.
In a tweet posted Tuesday afternoon, the company said its on track to name fascism its word of the year. It really doesnt want to do that.
Other dictionaries have already made their choice for word of the year. The Oxford dictionary chose post-truth for its word of the year and Dictionary.com chose xenophobia.
I just went to Merriam-Webster and searched for Fascism
Cha
(297,180 posts)tanyev
(42,552 posts)Also 'gaslight', for which they only have a literal definition.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Hugin
(33,135 posts)Would they prefer we search for "Trump"... In the English sense?
HAB911
(8,890 posts)someone at MW did this on purpose?!
Subversion is our future for 4 years
ToxMarz
(2,166 posts)while Mommy and Daddy are out.
Solly Mack
(90,763 posts)HAB911
(8,890 posts)Merriam-Websters Word Of 2016: SURREAL
Adjective joins 'post-truth' and ' xenophobia' among lexicographers' top choices to sum up annus horribilis that brought us Brexit chaos, Donald Trump, strikes and multiple celebrity deaths
Was 2016 a dream or a nightmare?
Try something in between: surreal, which is US dictionary Merriam-Webster's word of the year.
Meaning marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream, or unbelievable, fantastic, the word joins Oxford's post-truth and Dictionary.com's xenophobia as the year's top choices.
It just seems like one of those years, said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster's editor-at-large.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/merriam-webster-dictionary-word-of-the-year-2016-a7484156.html
Solly Mack
(90,763 posts)HAB911
(8,890 posts)Adjective joins 'post-truth' and ' xenophobia' among lexicographers' top choices to sum up annus horribilis that brought us Brexit chaos, Donald Trump, strikes and multiple celebrity deaths
Was 2016 a dream or a nightmare?
Try something in between: surreal, which is US dictionary Merriam-Webster's word of the year.
Meaning marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream, or unbelievable, fantastic, the word joins Oxford's post-truth and Dictionary.com's xenophobia as the year's top choices.
It just seems like one of those years, said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster's editor-at-large.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/merriam-webster-dictionary-word-of-the-year-2016-a7484156.html