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© Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Merriam-Webster declares 'ism' as word of the year for 2015
By LEANNE ITALIE NEW YORK©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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SenseNotSoCommon
Trumpism: blowing a particularly loud but utterly toneless trumpet.
albaleo
But was there a spike or otherwise for journalism?
curlygene
You'd think a bunch of dictionary publishers would know the difference between a suffix and a word. Decisions in the ****boardroom of Webster-Merriam must be made by a bunch of...wits - a suitable suffix, surely.
Conspiracy Theories
All of this seems confusingism
Haaa Nemui
Next year can we have 'ish'?
SenseNotSoCommon
Wasn't that copyrighted by Shinzo?
Black Sabbath
Samuel Johnson is apropos here:
Lexicógrapher. n.s. [λεξικὸν and γράφω; lexicographe, French.] A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words
http://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/?p=4848
kcjapan
"ism", when the speaker hasn't the time, intelligence or capacity for original thought. e.g. - Trumpism
Serrano
This is ridiculousism.
Derp Man
This is funnyism