2010 Word of the Year

Is there more than one panel for "word of the year?" I thought podcast made it, but on the list from the American Dialect Society, it is a runner up to "Truthiness." Not once have I ever heard anyone use "truthiness" but frequency doesn't seem to be the call here.

Word of the Year
WINNER truthiness: the quality of stating concepts or facts one wishes or believes to betrue, rather than concepts or facts known to be true. First vote: 32. Run-off: 66

Katrina: all Katrina-related words. First vote: 36. Run-off: 22

podcast: a digital feed containing audio or video files for downloading to a portable MP3 player. From the brand name MP3 player iPod + broadcast. 2

intelligent design: the theory that life is could only have been created by a sentient being. Often acronymized and pronounced as ID, the theory is being pushed by explanations of evolution. 5

refugee: a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war,
persecution, or natural disaster. 2

Cruiselex: Cruiselex is not itself a nominated word, but the term refers collectively to all the other Tom-Cruise-related words of the year in the special category below. 0

Heck of a job: catch phrase coined by President Bush. 5

brown-out: the poor handling of an emergency. 1

disaster industrial complex: the array of businesses which make profit from by providing emergency services, especially those that result from no-bid government contracts. 3

Podcast did make some of their other lists, and so did intelligent design (I believe it made the "most outrageous" list, but lost to Crotchfruit).