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Can the Dictionary Keep Up?

Books & the Arts / In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he ...
Any student from pre-K to university is sure to have utilized a print or online version of the world's most popular dictionary Merriam-Webster. Each year editor's weed through the dictionary adding ...
Merriam-Webster recently announced its latest slate of additions to the dictionary—some 200 new words and definitions that, as usual, are an eclectic blend of ones you probably assumed already had ...