RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Earlier this year, Oxford Dictionary announced that its word of 2015 isn't a word at all. Rather, it is the emoji titled, "Face With Tears Of Joy."</s>DAVID GREENE, HOST: Now, dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster has come out with their word of the year for 2015, and it's really just part of a word. It's -ism, as in socialism, communism, feminism.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: But this is not exactly a new word, or suffix, as fans of the movie "Miracle On 34th Street" know.</s>ALVIN GREENMAN: (As Alfred) Yeah, there's a lot of bad -isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. Make a buck. Make a buck. Even in Brooklyn, it's the same. Don't care what Christmas stands for. Just make a buck. Make a buck.</s>DAVID GREENE, HOST: OK, commercialism. There also, of course, is the word terrorism, which could sadly explain things.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Merriam-Webster chooses its word of the year based on what people have looked up the most in 2015.</s>DAVID GREENE, HOST: Now, one of the runners-up in 2015 was the word Minion because of, well, you know.</s>UNIDENTIFIED ACTORS: (As Minions, singing, unintelligible).
Merriam-Webster says its dictionary website has had very high traffic for words ending in i-s-m. Words such as racism, terrorism, fascism and capitalism.