Merriam-Webster's 2006 Word of the Year

The verdict is finally out.
Merriam-Webster’s, which had asked everyone to submit their nominations for the Word of the Year 2006, have announced the clear winner.
The # 1 Word of the Year for 2006 is truthiness (noun)
Meanings:
a) "Truth that comes from the gut, not books" (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," October 2005)
b) "The quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true" (American Dialect Society, January 2006)
The others words that made it to the top ten list were (in order):
2. Google
3. Decider
4. War
5. Insurgent
6. Terrorism
7. Vendetta
8. Sectarian
9. Quagmire
10. Corruption

FYI:
The word that I had nominated made its presence felt worldwide as also made it to the # 10 spot on the list.