Banned Words are listed by a Michigan university, and those words in the headline itself are tongue-in-cheek as in not really the truthiness. But "truthiness" did rank(def. 9) in their rank(def. 19 or 24 slang) of words. It was however honored as "the word that best summed up 2006 in an online survey by dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster."
Congratulations to my name sake, Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report, or rather his choice of name as the inspiration for my choice of The Liaison Report.
Speaking of words (and I suppose purists would say writing of words), as the year closed I thought of the origins or my rank of a few words.
"Bush Basher" and "Context".
And since 2006 was about change of course, I will MoveOn for the moment and pick up this track in the next post.
A belated HAPPY NEW YEAR, but I feel we turned a few pages before the last closed.
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Note to self: Resolutions and Rememberances, and the greening of our world.
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