Merriam-Webster just announced that SURREAL is the Word of the Year for 2016. Lookups of the word spiked after a number of major events worldwide, beginning with the Brussels terror attacks in March, then the coup attempt in Turkey and after the terrorist attack in Nice. The largest spike followed the November election. “Spikes of interest in a word are usually triggered by a single event, so what’s truly remarkable this year about surreal is that so many different stories led people to look it up,” Peter Sokolowski, Editor at Large for Merriam-Webster, said in a press release. “Historically, surreal has been one of the words most searched after tragedy, most notably in the days following 9/11, but it was associated with a wide variety of stories this year.”
Monday, December 19, 2016
"Word of the Year" for 2016 announced by Merriam-Webster
Dec. 19, 2016 -- a list-serv article in ABC NEWS dot-go dot-com:
Merriam-Webster just announced that SURREAL is the Word of the Year for 2016. Lookups of the word spiked after a number of major events worldwide, beginning with the Brussels terror attacks in March, then the coup attempt in Turkey and after the terrorist attack in Nice. The largest spike followed the November election. “Spikes of interest in a word are usually triggered by a single event, so what’s truly remarkable this year about surreal is that so many different stories led people to look it up,” Peter Sokolowski, Editor at Large for Merriam-Webster, said in a press release. “Historically, surreal has been one of the words most searched after tragedy, most notably in the days following 9/11, but it was associated with a wide variety of stories this year.”
Merriam-Webster just announced that SURREAL is the Word of the Year for 2016. Lookups of the word spiked after a number of major events worldwide, beginning with the Brussels terror attacks in March, then the coup attempt in Turkey and after the terrorist attack in Nice. The largest spike followed the November election. “Spikes of interest in a word are usually triggered by a single event, so what’s truly remarkable this year about surreal is that so many different stories led people to look it up,” Peter Sokolowski, Editor at Large for Merriam-Webster, said in a press release. “Historically, surreal has been one of the words most searched after tragedy, most notably in the days following 9/11, but it was associated with a wide variety of stories this year.”
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