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Merriam-Webster made a snide jab at Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue on Tuesday by announcing the launch of a mock subscription-only service labeled “Merriam-Webster Red.” “People who subscribe to ...
By the high-gloss, high-tech standards of 21 st-century corporate life, the headquarters of America’s premier dictionary publisher is an unusual place.Merriam-Webster Inc. is housed in a two ...
New Merriam-Webster dictionary words Here are some of the additions to the dictionary and what they mean. If you're a pumpkin spice lover, then there's good news for you: it's now in the dictionary.
The idea for those tweets came from the dictionary's Trend Watch feature, Lauren Naturale, social media manager at Merriam-Webster, told Vox.com.When people are looking up a word at a higher rate ...
FILE - A Merriam-Webster dictionary sits atop their citation files at the dictionary publisher's offices on Dec. 9, 2014, in Springfield, Mass. Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is ...
Meanwhile "rizz" went straight to the "top of lookups" in September, when the example of internet-driven slang was added to the dictionary. For the uninitiated, Merriam-Webster explained: "As a ...
Popular dictionary Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is "authentic". Searches for the term were driven by AI, celebrities and identity. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...
Searches for the word “vaccine” increased by 601 percent this year at Merriam-Webster.com, according to the dictionary company, which chooses its word of the year based on lookup data.
Merriam-Webster, publisher of the ubiquitous dictionary, has named its word of the year for 2023: “authentic.” While Merriam-Webster says in its announcement that word of the year “authentic ...