Palin's 'refudiate' tops Merriam-Webster's most-searched list

According to The Associated Press (via MSNBC), the dictionary and reference book publisher Merriam-Webster has named "refudiate" as 2010's "Word of the Summer." The word garnered the award because users of the company's online dictionary searched for its definition most out of all other words. Those users weren't able to find an entry, of course, because the word isn't in common usage. Merriam-Webster's president and publisher was unwilling to speculate on whether or not the word would eventually become part of the dictionary, saying that popular acceptance of a word is extremely difficult to predict. Read much more, here.