Every year the Oxford English Dictiounary introduce a new word to their word dictionary.
Back in November, Alison Flood wrote an interesting leader in The
Guardian about post-truth, she wrote,’ In the era of Donald Trump and
Brexit, Oxford Dictionaries has declared “post-truth” to be it's international
word of the year. Defined by the dictionary as an adjective “relating to or denoting
circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public
opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”, editors said that use of
the term “post-truth” had increased by around 2,000% in 2016 compared to last
year. The spike in usage, it said, is “in the context of the EU referendum in the
United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States”.
