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Word nerd alert: Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds over 5,000 new words, including “petrichor,” “teraflop,” “dumbphone” and “ghost kitchen.”
The 12th edition of “Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary” comes 22 years after the book’s last hard-copy update and amid declining U.S. sales for analog dictionaries overall, according to Circana BookScan. It will be released Nov. 18, with preorders now available.
Petrichor, by the way, is a pleasant odor after a rainfall following a warm, dry period. Teraflop is a unit of measure for calculating the speed of a computer. Dumbphones are just that, mobile devices we used before the smartphone revolution. And ghost kitchens, which came into their own during the pandemic, are commercial spaces for hire.
Other additions: “cold brew,” “farm-to-table,” “rizz,” “dad bod,” “hard pass,” “adulting” and “cancel culture.” There’s also “beast mode,” “dashcam,” “doomscroll,”“WFH” and “side-eye.”
The new “Collegiate” also includes enhanced entries for some top lookups, and more than 20,000 new usage examples. All of the added words were already available on Merriam-Webster.com. More
Page 437: Megadumfux. Noun Plural – Merriam Webster staff.
“Thatwasn’tafartjill”
It isn’t the dictionary, it’s the users who have dumbed down the language.
The epilogue to 1984 is the most interesting part. Details the ultimate goal of destroying the language.
When you dumb down the language, you remove the ability for citizens to vocalize their dissent.
My 1975 edition predates the “personal computer.” It’s still a good dictionary.
Stopped listening when “bling” became a word.
“Reimagine” is the leftist term for “Conservatives are wrong about everything” It is also thee Marxist term for re-writing history.
General Malaise, I found and bought an Oxford English dictionary in a used bookstore in Las Vegas, of all places. Originally ublished in 1933 but this one was printed in 1952 It is interesting to page through it! All 2315 pages! A previous owner made lots of marks and notations.
imma, noamsayn, sailfoam, etc…
@ 113: …’sup…
market-ize
product-ize
action-able
fku
Look up felching if you want to get really grossed out. Thanks fags.