ON Monday, Merriam-Webster, a US company that publishes reference books principally dictionaries, released its Word of the Year for 2016. The word chosen was “surreal”.
It could have been worse. The firm might have chosen “apocalyptic”. Even so, one cannot help feeling that Webster’s choice was spot on. “Surreal” is an adjective that, and I quote from Collins, “has the same disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; something unreal, fantastic or bizarre”.
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