Why Did Merriam-Webster Decide `Feminism` As Word of the Year For 2017?
(WorldNews Africa)

Merriam-Webster announced on Tuesday that their word for the year of 2017 is `feminism` after a long and tumultuous year of issues surrounding the women`s rights movement, according to CBS News. Searches for feminism increased over 70 percent in 2017 compared to 2016 and spiked in searches several times according to lexicographer Peter Sokolowski, the company`s editor at large who spoke with the Associated Press before Tuesday`s annual reveal. One of the first booms of the word was the Women`s March on Washington in January, which was echoed by sister demonstrations around the world from Antarctica to Paris. The word was also bolstered by searches linked to Democrat Hillary Clinton`s...