Truthiness

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 02:03:24PM -0500, Baker, John wrote:
>         Incidentally, Google Groups reveals that the word, though
> doubtless independently re-created by Stephen Colbert or his writers,
> did have some degree of pre-existing use.  From 1/9/1995:  "If you want
> to complain of annoying fundamentalist outbreaks of one-truthiness, on
> the other hand, I would be glad to support you."

As long as we're mentioning the existing pre-Colbert uses, let's
not forget that OED records it from 1824....

JTS