{"id":56757,"date":"2016-12-20T02:54:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T02:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_merriam-websters_word_of_the_year_sums_up_2016\/"},"modified":"2016-12-20T02:54:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T02:54:21","slug":"bbc_merriam-websters_word_of_the_year_sums_up_2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56757","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Merriam-Webster&#39;s word of the year sums up 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dictionary Merriam-Webster has named &#8220;surreal&#8221; as its word of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The lexicographer selected surreal &#8211; which means &#8220;unbelievable, fantastic&#8221; &#8211; after spikes in searches following terrorist attacks and the US election.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks in Brussels, the Bastille Day massacre in Nice and the attempted coup in Turkey all saw an increase in how often people searched for the word.<\/p>\n<p>But the single biggest spike in look-ups came the day after Donald Trump&#8217;s election, said Merriam-Webster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just seems like one of those years,&#8221; said Peter Sokolowski, the dictionary&#8217;s editor at large.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-38369698\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dictionary Merriam-Webster has named &#8220;surreal&#8221; as its word of the year. The lexicographer selected surreal &#8211; which means &#8220;unbelievable, fantastic&#8221; &#8211; after spikes in searches following terrorist attacks and the US election. The attacks in Brussels, the Bastille Day massacre<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56757\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,133,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-history","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}