The not-so-slow death of truthiness?

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:07 PM -0400 8/17/06, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>>This reflects the difference between the full LN (which Fred has access to)
>>and LNAcademic (which is all that I have access to without going over to the
>>law library and getting a law student to do the search for me). It
>>is also the
>>case, I believe, that the full LN has lots of duplicates. Even so,
>>the numbers
>>strike me as very low for "the word of the year." How do OTIOSE and RECONDITE
>>count in comparison?
>
>truthiness              otiose          recondite
>239 past 6 mos          64 past 6 mos   72 past 6 mos
>49 past month           3 past month    8 past month
>30 past week            1 past week     1 past week
>
>Fred Shapiro
>
I knew there was some reason we didn't choose "otiose" as our WOTY!

LH

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