“Truthiness” Is The Top Word Of 2005? That’s Just Cruisazy.

by Jimmy Akin on January 10, 2006

in Languages

Actually, I’m not wild about either "truthiness" or "Cruisazy."

"Podcast," however, deserves recognition.

And "sudoku" is likely to have legs.

"Pope squatting" may also come back to haunt us some day.

WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT?

(CHT to the reader who e-mailed.)

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"I don't know any other public figure who has inspired so many words in a single year," said Erin McKean, editor of the New Oxford American Dictionary"
I can't stand the jumped up little twerp and I agree that he could adequately inspire a profusion of words...none of which I would repeat here. Because I'm a nice Catholic girl.
God Bless.

or for those that didn't catch the coining of 'truthiness' you can find it on the first episode of Stephen Colbert's new Comedy Central show. Scroll to the bottom of the list of videos. It's titled 'truthiness' and only plays in Internet Explorer. I reckon it a very funny little bit.
In a more recent episode he made note of the AP article's complete omission of his coining of the word. Poor guy.

For those who missed the jump the couch thing, SEE HERE.

I feel like I just stepped into the chapter in C.S. Lewis' "That Hideous Strength" where Babel is revisited.

Here I thought Cruisazy was going to have something to do being really excited about going on a crusade. Somehow I missed the couch-jumping thing.

"Aliens are eating my brain....wait I have no brain!"

Thanks Dr. Eric! You just made my day.

The American Dialect Society Embiggens us all.

I don't see why you have an issue with it. It's a prefectly cromnulent word.

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