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Words of the year, now with polarization.
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Words of the year Now with demure and kakistocracy .
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Words of the year Now with brain rot .
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Words of the year, now with enshittification.
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Words of the year, now with manifest.
Words of the year
From the Collins Dictionary, brat : inspired by Charli XCX and “characterized by a confident, independent, and hedonistic attitude.”
How to use a dictionary as a weapon
From a 1946 movie: a Merriam-Webster Collegiate as a weapon.
AP
For the 2024–2026 edition of The Associated Press Stylebook, the dictionary of choice will change from Webster’s New World College Dictionary to Merriam-Webster.
A dictionary of rice
In the works, in Japan.
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Another word of the year.
Another meaning of “snail mail”
My one submission to the OED.
The Dictionary People
Knowing a bit about rabbit holes, I know the importance of knowing when to stop. But I understand the impulse to keep going, for it’s unlikely that there will be another book about the OED’s Readers.
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Words of the year, now with a second “hallucinate” and a “vibe of the year.”
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Another word of the year: “rizz.”
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Another word of the year.
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A word of the year from Merriam-Webster.
Madeline Kripke’s dictionaries
Atlas Obscura visits Madeline Kripke’s dictionary collection, perhaps the largest collection of dictionaries ever amassed.
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A missing word
David Skinner tells the story of “the only major expletive left out of Webster’s Third.”
Words of the year
From the Collins Dictionary, AI .
A dictionary, done
“It was started in 1883 and now we’re done”: Svenska Akademiens ordbok, the official Swedish dictionary, analogous to the OED, has been completed after 140 years.
Morissette, Clarkson, and Webster
Kelly Clarkson bought her first dictionary because of Alanis Morissette.
The Martin family dictionary
Timmy and Lassie and a Merriam-Webster’s Second.
One family’s dictionary
From the Indiana University Libraries blog, the story of one family’s “lexical bible,” an 1823 copy of John Walker’s A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language, a dictionary first published in 1791.
Stephen Sondheim’s dictionary
A Merriam-Webster’s Second on his dictionary stand. The three thumb-notches at the front of the volume — clear signs of a W2.
A dictionary in progress
Ten entries from the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, in progress.
A dictionary and a prison
The man who made violent threats against Merriam-Webster last year over its definitions of “female” and “girl” has been sentenced to a year in prison.
Beauty , defined, undefined
There’s something risible about the head of a cosmetics conglomerate pushing for a redefinition — or undefinition — of beauty.
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“Woman”: another word of the year.
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The words of the year now include goblin mode.