Merriam-Webster Issues Plea About Fascism

[HAB911]

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 it’s on track to name fascism its word of the year. It really doesn’t 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]

1. K&R Fascism is the damn word of the year

[tanyev]

2. I just went and searched too.

Also 'gaslight', for which they only have a literal definition.

[Achilleaze]

3. Republicans: But "fascism" just rolls off the tongue, and it has a nice ring to it

[Hugin]

4. I searched for "fascism" and "fascist".

Would they prefer we search for "Trump"... In the English sense?

[HAB911]

5. LOL, I'm thinking

someone at MW did this on purpose?!

Subversion is our future for 4 years

[ToxMarz]

6. OK kids, don't touch the cookies I'm hiding in the top left cabinet

while Mommy and Daddy are out.

[Solly Mack]

7. We've got post-truth and xenophobia - seems to me "fascism" fits right in

[HAB911]

9. Merriam-Websters Word Of 2016: SURREAL

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]

10. That works, too.

[HAB911]

8. 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