Truthiness

====The article by Ben Zimmer discusses the various aspects of the word “Truthiness”. What it looks at is how that word came into being and the various social and cultural impacts. Steven Colbert coined this term. This word meant the fact that you trust your guts and not real facts. The word later viral with the help of social media such as twitter and in 2005 it won the award of Word of the Year. It subsequently went ahead and was entered into the New Oxford American Dictionary in 2010.====

====This is not a new thing words are being coined by people almost everyday. The fact that a few of these words actually manage to make it into the dictionary shows the influences that people have on society. Online dictionaries today have a lot of the latest “texting” lingo in it. It is fascinating to see how all our common colloquial terms are now being recognized globally. This is a huge deal as before this time for a word to be recognized it has to be acknowledged by the Oxford dictionary. Now days this is no longer the case.====