by Kevin Coupe
Merriam-Webster has announced that its word of the year for 2023 is authentic.
I’m assuming that, in an age of misinformation, disinformation and deep fakes, the runner up must have been irony.
Editor at large Peter Sokolowski tells the Associated Press that the lookups of the word authentic routinely are heavy on the Merriam-Webster site, “but were boosted to new heights throughout the year.”
Examples: “Authentic cuisine. Authentic voice. Authentic self. Authenticity as artifice.”
(Wait a minute. Isn’t artifice sort of the opposite of authentic?)
“We see in 2023 a kind of crisis of authenticity,” Sokolowski says. “What we realize is that when we question authenticity, we value it even more.”
Last year’s word was gaslighting.
Other top words for 2023 offer Eye-Opening clues to what has been happening in the world.
Like kibbutz. Implode. Coronation. Deepfake. Dystopian. And indict.
Make of that what you will.
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