The Linguistic Society of America has named “Santorum” the Most Outrageous Word of the Year for 2004. The only problem? The word was around well before this year- in fact, Dan Savage coined the term around the time of the senator’s infamous anti-gay comments, which were published in April of 2003. In fact, I named Santorum the “Frothy Mixture of the Year” during my year-end awards for ‘03.
Then again, the LSA’s pick for “Word of the Year,” “Red State/Blue State/Purple State,” is at least four years old.
Posted by Stephen Silver at January 14, 2005 01:34 AM