deather(ism), proofer(ism)

[Ben Zimmer]

New terms cropping up for conspiracy theorists positing that Osama bin Laden
isn't actually dead:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/05/the-warp-speed-rise-of-deatherism/238187/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/05/05/the-rise-of-prooferism.aspx

("Deathers," in a previous incarnation, were people who bought Sarah Palin's
line about "death panels." It got some consideration with other "-er" words
in the WOTY '09 voting.)

--bgz


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