Words on the street

It’s always fun to track the way pop culture lingo is evolving from year to year. Sunday the Global Language Monitor, a word-trend group, named the top buzz words of the year, which include originals from Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report.

Stephen Colbert is known for his short segment “The Word” (as well as taking on talking heads like Bill O’Reilly).

“Truthiness,” which according to GLM means the truth unencumbered by the facts, and “Wikiality,” derived from Wikipedia, joined words Microsoft Word actually recognizes like “Katrina” and “Dr. McDreamy” (OK, maybe not McDreamy) on the list.

“Some of these buzz words will pass quickly while others will be embedded in the language for years to come,” said Paul JJ Payack, president of GLM. Are there any words in the world that are Houston-specific?