YO, PRETTY LADIES: Blog is the Word of the Year, based on searches at the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Web site, beating out a host of election-related words such as incumbent, electoral, and partisan. And while the Webster dictionary definition of blog as "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks" is sufficient enough, I think I prefer the description of a blog offered further down in the Reuters story: "Freed from the constraints that govern traditional print and broadcast news organizations, blogs spread gossip while also serving as an outlet for people increasingly disenchanted with mainstream media." I think the other interesting nugget is the fact that the people who determine the word of the year at Merriam-Webster automatically disqualify such perrenial favoriters as "affect/effect and profanity." I'm assuming that by "profanity" they mean actual profane words, which--admit it--we all looked up in the dictionary as kids, and not the actual word profanity itself.
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