# "Truthiness" named Word of the Year **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 9, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthiness-named-word-of-the-year/383421 "2006-12-09T01:07:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthiness-named-word-of-the-year/383421/1 "2006-12-09T01:07:54Z")
[Truthfully](http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6268087,00.html). I’m sure Stephen Colbert’s Balls are swelling with joy. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthiness-named-word-of-the-year/383421/2 "2006-12-09T02:25:26Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] [Truthfully](http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6268087,00.html). I’m sure Stephen Colbert’s Balls are swelling with joy. [/QUOTE] Well, he _is_ ballsalicious. Jon Stewart said so. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthiness-named-word-of-the-year/383421/3 "2006-12-09T06:21:28Z")
I love that word, PC Gamer uses it in their chart for measuring how good a game is. It’s called the Bar of Truthiness. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthiness-named-word-of-the-year/383421/4 "2006-12-09T06:45:52Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Well, he _is_ ballsalicious. Jon Stewart said so. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but now they’re just going to get an infalted ego. Yes, I said _ego_. No, that is not a euphemism. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthiness-named-word-of-the-year/383421/5 "2006-12-09T06:47:09Z")
Infalted … inflated … screw it. They’ll get a swelled head, okay? ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthiness-named-word-of-the-year/383421/6 "2006-12-09T19:22:49Z")
Do you doubt that words can be coined inadvertently by humorists? How else do you explain words like Glaswegians? ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthiness-named-word-of-the-year/383421/7 "2006-12-09T19:41:43Z")
I thought thruthiness was the word of the year last year? Am I totally wrong? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthiness-named-word-of-the-year/383421/8 "2006-12-09T19:46:01Z")
That’s Crumbalievable! ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthiness-named-word-of-the-year/383421/9 "2006-12-09T19:46:09Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima] I thought thruthiness was the word of the year last year? Am I totally wrong? [/QUOTE] [The American Dialect Society](http://www.americandialect.org/index.php/amerdial/truthiness_voted_2005_word_of_the_year/) voted it Word of The Year for 2005 in January. Merriam-Webster is totally ripping us off. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthiness-named-word-of-the-year/383421/10 "2006-12-09T20:09:36Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] Infalted … inflated … screw it. They’ll get a swelled head, okay? [/QUOTE] Infellated? ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthiness-named-word-of-the-year/383421/11 "2006-12-09T20:55:40Z")
> [@](#): > > By **Stephen Colbert** > Though I’m no fan of reference books and their fact-based agendas, I am a fan of anyone who chooses to honor me. Gotta love this guy. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthiness-named-word-of-the-year/383421/12 "2006-12-10T01:09:00Z")
Its a perfectly cromulent word. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthiness-named-word-of-the-year/383421/13 "2006-12-10T02:43:19Z")
[QUOTE=liberty3701] [The American Dialect Society](http://www.americandialect.org/index.php/amerdial/truthiness_voted_2005_word_of_the_year/) voted it Word of The Year for 2005 in January. Merriam-Webster is totally ripping us off. [/QUOTE] [The Global Language Monitor](http://www.languagemonitor.com/wst_page11.html) also gave nods to not only “truthiness,” but “Wikilaity” as well. Sadly, no one has given “godless killing machines” its due. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truthiness-named-word-of-the-year/383421/14 "2006-12-10T16:27:51Z")
I read the article this morning, and it was the first time I had ever heard the word “truthiness”. Ever. I am so out of the loop. I’m not even totally sure who Stephen Colbert is, and I’m sure I’ve never watched his show. I don’t have cable, or satellite, and while I listen to the news and read newspapers, I somehow missed this word.