MIRRIAM WEBSTER’S WORD OF THE YEAR: “ISM”

Merriam-Webster, the leading publisher of dictionaries in the U.S., has announced its word of the year. The selection is based on the term that receives both “a high volume of lookups and a significant year-over-year increase in lookups at Merriam-Webster.com.” For 2015, the company has revealed that its Word Of The Year is “-ism,” which is not actually a word, but a suffix. The publishers say “isms” was not only part of the most looked-up word of the year, socialism, but other oft-searched words including fascism, terrorism, racism, feminism, communism, and capitalism.
Other words that were looked up often were:
– marriage
– hypocrite
– respect
– inspiration
– minion
* FINALLY! The suspense was KILLING me!
* Ism? Like in “orgism?
* Wow, did Merriam-Webster phone it in this year, or what?
* I think Merriam-Webster just invented a new term: Slackerism.
* I know we’re cutting back but can’t we get a complete word?
* My attitude is, if you can’t use it in Scrabble, it doesn’t count.
* They announced it now so it wouldn’t detract from the Star Wars opening later this week.
* What will we get next year? A single letter?
* Dictionaries. How are they even still a thing?