Is “truthiness” a word?  The joke implies that it is not.  But if it isn’t a word, then what is it?  What makes a word a word?  The fact that it’s in a dictionary? But what happens before a word is a word?  At some point, “fellatio” and “cunnilingus” were not words.  At some point, the entire English language as we know it today “was not a word”. Have you ever had the pleasure of being … Read entire article »