I know y'all have been waiting for THIS .....

According to Merriam-Webster online, the official "Word of the Year-2006" is:


Truthiness.
1 : "truth that comes from the gut, not books" (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," October 2005)
2 : "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true" (American Dialect Society, January 2006)


Here are the rest of the candidates:

2. google
3. decider
4. war
5. insurgent
6. terrorism
7. vendetta
8. sectarian
9. quagmire
10. corruption

Now .......... wasn't that worth the wait????