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Word of the year 2008?
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Change.
Bailout.
Recession.
Truthiness.
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None of the above, the new word for 2008 is "core".

5 Replies to Jackofdiamonds's answer

Care to elaborate?

If you listen to the politicians, they all have core values. ie: The core of the economy is strong, The core problem in Iraq is...The core decency of the electorate is basically good, etc,etc,etc.

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lol...certainly was the politician's word of the year, I'll give you that!

That is certainly the core position of the incoming administration.

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That certainly be a choice, it was one of the biggest.

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All the above answers has been the words of the year.But recession is the only word talked more often from the beginning of the year

Is "truthiness" really a word? That sounds like something CNN would make up.