WASHINGTON A day after White House press secretary Sean Spicer lied through an entire press briefingabout the size of the crowds at President Donald Trumps inauguration, Kellyanne Conway on Sunday insisted he had done no such thing.
Sean Spicer gave alternativefacts, Conway, a counselor to Trump, said on NBCs Meet The Press.
Not only did hostChuck Todd call out Conway for equating falsehoods with alternative facts she, like Trump, claims he had the biggest inauguration turnout ever, which is easily disproven with photos and data but the dictionary itself stepped in to help clear things up.
A fact is a piece of information presented as having objective reality, tweeted the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, who, having had the job of defining words since 1828, knows a thing or two about the English language.
The dictionary also linked to a post that it wrote (well, its editors wrote) about how Conways comments fueled a spike in online searches for the word fact. That people arent sure whether alternative facts are still facts appeared to get under the skin the cover? of the dusty, gold-trimmed book thats been begging for attention on your shelf for at least a decade.
In contemporary use, fact is generally understood to refer to something with actual existence, or presented as having objective reality, reads the post.
Its not the first time the dictionary has inserted itself into the political arena. Last February, Merriam-Webster tried to help make sense of one of Trumps error-riddled tweets.
Trump has since deleted that tweet, which called Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) a Leightweight chocker [sic] twice, and said it was a Great honer! [sic] that so many polls showed him winning a debate.
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