"Merriam-Webster saw a staggering 1,740 percent increase in searches for “gaslighting” in its online dictionary in 2022. Interest in the word was sustained throughout the entire year: Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, tells Leanne Italie of the Associated Press (AP) that the word stayed in Merriam-Webster’s top 50 list…
"Merriam-Webster saw a staggering 1,740 percent increase in searches for “gaslighting” in its online dictionary in 2022. Interest in the word was sustained throughout the entire year: Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, tells Leanne Italie of the Associated Press (AP) that the word stayed in Merriam-Webster’s top 50 list of most-searched words for all of 2022."
I often wonder how many people out there who have little to minimal contact with others online (like my parents) who have put the pieces together and are sitting there just wondering and knowing something nefarious has happened here……..because the “TV” doesn’t tell them the truth and they can smell its a lie. Very interesting the numbers that searched that word!
"Merriam-Webster saw a staggering 1,740 percent increase in searches for “gaslighting” in its online dictionary in 2022. Interest in the word was sustained throughout the entire year: Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, tells Leanne Italie of the Associated Press (AP) that the word stayed in Merriam-Webster’s top 50 list of most-searched words for all of 2022."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gaslighting-merriam-webster-word-of-the-year-180981203/
I often wonder how many people out there who have little to minimal contact with others online (like my parents) who have put the pieces together and are sitting there just wondering and knowing something nefarious has happened here……..because the “TV” doesn’t tell them the truth and they can smell its a lie. Very interesting the numbers that searched that word!