Post-Truth has been chosen at 2016’s word of the year, according to Oxford Dictionary. Post truth can be defined as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”

This word had a major surge during the election, and that led to the result of being word of the year. There were nine other words in the running as word of the year. They are the following: adulting, alt-right, brexiteer, chatbot, coulrophobia, hygge, glass cliff, latinx and woke.

The 2015 word of the year wasn’t a word, but instead an emoji. The only pictograph ever chosen as word of the year, the ‘Face with tears of joy’ was chosen, due to it being used 17% of the time in every message that contained an emoji.

Students in Allison Berryhill’s Intro to Journalism, Editorial Journalism, and Broadcasting class were asked what they thought AHS word of the year would be. The majority of students determined that “lit” was the word of the year. Behind lit, was the word “dab.” Senior Camden Mcfadden said he chose dab because “it’s gained a lot of popularity recently. It’s just a trend, but unlike Post-Truth, it’s become a thing for different reasons. Some people think it’s a joke, others think it’s a drug reference.”

History teacher Tony Wiley said his word of the year would have to be “Trump.” English teacher Allison Berryhill said her vote goes towards “bigly,” used by President-elect Donald Trump.

AHS Intro journalism class word of the year

2nd period

Dab x8

Its lit

Tuff x2

Bro

Ayright

Suh

Lit

Litty

8th period

Lit

Solid

Noice

Tuff

Dab

Juju

Yolo

Massive

Same

Great

Yoked