NEW YORK (AP) – Racial justice. Obstruction of justice Social justice. The Department of Justice. Merriam-Webster has chosen "justice" as the word of the year 2018, motivated by the upsetting news cycle over the months.
The word follows "toxic," chosen by Oxford dictionaries, and "misinformation," pinned by Dictonary. .com.
Peter Sokolowski, the editor-in-chief of Merriam-Webster, told The Associated Press before the announcement on Monday that "justice" was consistently among the 20 or 30 most-searched searches on the site The company's Web, sometimes marked by specific events, but also getting closer
Although this is one of the words that people probably know how to spell and use correctly in a sentence, Sokolowski pointed out that it's a good thing. other reasons that generate traffic in searches. Among these, there is an attempt to focus a reflection on a philosophical problem or to seek an ambitious motivation. These well-known words are often among the most sought after every year, including those that are slightly abstract, including "love," he said.
The designation of "justice" came shortly after Michael, one of the instigators of President Trump, was reinstated. Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for crimes including organizing the payment of a secret sum in order to conceal the alleged sexual affairs of his boss. He told a judge that he had repeatedly agreed to conceal Trump's "dirty deeds" by "blind loyalty."
Related: The most incorrectly worded word in each state:
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Each The Most Incorrectly Spelled Word Of The State
(Photo: Shutterstock) [19659083] Oregon: "The Meaning"
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Pennsylvania: "Sauerkraut"
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Rhode Island: "Liar"
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South Carolina: "Chihuahua"
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South Dakota: "College"
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Tennessee: "Chaos"
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Texas: "Maintenance"
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Utah: "Disease"
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Vermont: " Europe "
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Virginia: " Delicious "
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Washington: Pneumonia
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Virginia from the West: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
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. : "Wisconsin" [19659012] (Photo: Getty Images)
Wyoming: "Priority"
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The advent of a Senate vote on the "First Step Act", a bill on criminal justice reform enjoying broad bipartisan support. Earlier in the year, Kim Kardashian West visited the White House twice at the White House to discuss prison and prison reform. Sentencing for drug offenses, treatment of opioid addiction, relaxation of cannabis laws, Tesla inquiry, Mueller inquiry into the Trump campaign: justice will remain the main concern of the new year.
"These are stories that relate to culture and society across races, classes," said Sokolowski. "We have this word that filters."
This includes Twitter to a large extent.
Often, when Trump tweet about the Department of Justice, he simply uses "Justice". On August 1, when he tweeted his wish that the Attorney General of the time, Jeff Sessions, put an end to the investigation into the Mueller case, research has increased sharply. Trump spoke of "obstruction of justice", a separate entry on the Merriam-Webster site, which resulted in a 900% increase in the number of consultations compared with the previous year.
Search "justice" throughout the year compared to 2017., have recorded a 74% increase on the site, which counts more than 100 million page views per month and almost half a -million entries, said Sokolowski. To be worthy of the name, an entry must show both a high volume of traffic and a significant increase in searches from year to year – as opposed to, for example, a word that only buzzes or feels high, did he declare. 19659002] "We are not publishing, we have looked at our data and we have been surprised by this word," said Sokolowski. "It's a word people have been thinking about for a whole year."
The word "justice" comes from the Latin, unlike many of the more emotional words that arose in Old English. Old English had "right", "right" and "right", but never "justice", in reference to a system of laws.
"It is not a coincidence that this comes from the twelfth century, which immediately follows the Norman conquest.When the Normans invaded England, they brought their language, the old French, which was essentially the modern version of Latin at the time.They introduced their system of government and their laws and imposed them to the peoples they conquered, and that is why all legal language in English today is Latin, just like the word justice, "explained Sokolowski." We had to impose a system of laws that bring us the word justice. "
A rule breaker:" witness ", a word with a purely English start.
Other words that have seen peaks of research this year: "maverick" (Senator John McCain died "respect" (deceased Aretha Franklin), "excelsior" (battle cry of Stan Lee. died), "pissing" (a radio host describes Tom Brady's daughter), "pansexual" (Janelle Monae described herself as such); "laurel" (do you remember Laurier versus yanny?); "impeccable" (which Samantha Bee called Ivanka Trump, combined with a pejorative starting with "c"); "epiphany" (title of a K-pop BTS song fallen this year); "lodestar" (used in reference to McCain in the anonymous editorial of the New York Times, identified as coming from the Trump administration); and "nationalism" (at a rally in Texas on October 22, Trump declared himself a nationalist.)
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