Word nerds, rejoice! Merriam-Webster has announced that it’s adding more than 5-thousand new words to one of its most popular dictionaries. It’s taking the rare step of fully “revising and reimagining” the 12th edition of “Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary,” which will be released November 18th.
It’s been 22 years since the book’s last hard-copy update, as U.S. sales are down for dictionaries overall. But the new and improved edition will include some modern terms, like “doomscroll,” “WFH,” “dumbphone” and “ghost kitchen.” Also among the 5-thousand newbies are “cold brew,” “farm-to-table,” “rizz,” “dad bod,” “hard pass,” “adulting,” “cancel culture,” “beast mode,” “dashcam,” and “side-eye.”
The new “Collegiate” edition will also include enhanced entries for popular lookups, plus over 20-thousand new usage examples. The book weighs in at close to five pounds, but some stuff in the previous edition had to go to make room for the additions, so what did they cut? Merriam-Webster removed two sections from the 11th edition that had “sparse biographical and geographical entries,” along with some obscure and antiquated words.
Source: CBS News
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