According to Merriam-Webster, this year has been the year of -isms. Feminism, socialism, racism, terrorism -- American rhetoric in 2015 was filled with the suffix. Or so says our country's "most trustworthy dictionary," which just deemed "-ism" its word of the year. "A suffix is the Word of the Year because a small group of words that share this three-letter ending triggered both high volume and significant year-over-year increase in lookups at Merriam-Webster.com," the dictionary professed this...
Merriam-Webster's Word Of The Year Says A Lot About The State Of America
The Huffington Post - 16 Dec 2015 23:52
According to Merriam-Webster, this year has been the year of -isms. Feminism, socialism, racism, terrorism -- American rhetoric in 2015 was filled with the suffix. Or so says our country's "most trustworthy dictionary," which just deemed "-ism" its word of the year. "A suffix is the Word of the Year because a small group of words that share this three-letter ending triggered both high volume and significant year-over-year increase in lookups at Merriam-Webster.com," the dictionary professed this...
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