Word nerds FTW! Merriam-Webster has added 455 new words and definitions to the dictionary — including nods to online culture, food favourites and the pandemic — to reflect our ever-evolving language.

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

“Boys aren’t girls, and girls aren’t boys … I will assassinate your top editor.” A disgruntled man upset about Merriam-Webster dictionary’s update to their definitions of gender pronouns and ...

"A subtweet is a standalone response to someone else's tweet that does not mention the other person or their tweet at all" — that is Merriam-Webster's definition of a subtweet, something the ...

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