Vote for 2006 Word of the Year at Webster’s

Merriam-Webster, the American dictionary publisher, is soliciting votes for 2006 Word of the Year, “the one single word that sums up 2006.”

Vote here through Monday, December 4, 2006 (American time).

2005 and previous Words of the Year were decided by looking at online-dictionary search data; the most popular searches were the winners. Thus, it was a contest, of sorts, for words that people didn’t know but were reading or hearing enough to look up. 2006′s words may be very different.