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Time Traveler tool tells you which words first appeared in print the year you were born

sudshr47 October 25, 2018

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Merriam-Webster shared its website’s new “Time Traveler” feature on Thursday, and it’s honestly super fun.

The Time Traveler section of the site allows users to see which words first appeared in print the year they were born. 

All you need to do is simply plug in the year you were born and voila! You’ll have access to a size-able number of words introduced that year. 

Ever wonder which words first appeared in print the year you were born?

Come time travel with ushttps://t.co/qe6hRdOlgl

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) October 25, 2018 Read more…

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Merriam-Webster subtweeted about Trump’s child separation policy

sudshr47 June 19, 2018

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Merriam-Webster’s Twitter account is famed for not being here for your BS — or that of the Department of Homeland Security.

On Sunday, DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen declared her agency doesn’t “have a policy of separating families at the border,” despite extensive reports contradicting the claim. 

When asked by CNN’s Jeff Zeleny on Monday whether the separation policy was tantamount to child abuse, Nielsen claimed that most children were sent to the border alone, and there were “high standards” for the detention centres these children were housed in.  Read more…

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Merriam-Webster burns Trump over misspelling in one of his very worst tweets

sudshr47 June 18, 2018

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President Donald Trump sent some awful tweets on Monday morning about his administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at our border — which it turns out is a word he cannot even spell. 

In one of a series of very terrible tweets, Trump misspelled “border” as “boarder,” hardly the first typo he’s made but one that’s all the more glaring because of his obsession with “The Wall” and that aforementioned inhumane policy that is currently being enforced. Read more…

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Merriam-Webster searches for ‘slimeball’ up 60,000% after Trump’s tweet about Comey

sudshr47 April 13, 2018

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After President Trump’s tweet describing former FBI director James Comey as a “slimeball,” Merriam-Webster dictionary says searches for the word are up by 60,000 percent.

The president called Comey a “proven LEAKER & LIAR” in a series of tweets improperly strung together on Friday morning. 

“He lied to Congress under OATH,” Trump tweeted. “He is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI.”

James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and…..

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Merriam-Webster calls out Neil deGrasse Tyson for being a grumpy old man

sudshr47 April 13, 2018

Neil deGrasse Tyson holds no thoughts back on Twitter, and Merriam-Webster has had enough.
On Thursday, the astrophysicist decided to tweet a complaint about about the word “awesome,” which he is clearly sick of and believes is overused by today’s yo…

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A word from ‘The Simpsons’ made it into the Merriam-Webster dictionary

sudshr47 March 6, 2018

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Are you familiar with the words that adorn the statue of Jebediah Springfield?

In the Simpsons episode “Lisa the Iconoclast,” the children of Springfield are shown a video telling the story of the town’s founder, Jebediah Springfield. In the propaganda film, Springfield speaks these immortal words.

“A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.”

The children cheer, and teacher Edna Krabappel says:

To which fellow teacher Miss Hoover replies:

Cromulent or not, embiggen has been entered into the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

Oh hey

Cool news.

🎉🌟 We added 850 new words to the dictionary! 🎉🌟https://t.co/eyYWKHKzk7

— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) March 5, 2018 Read more…

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Nobody has ever heard of Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year

sudshr47 December 15, 2017

Online dictionaries like Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com pick their words of the year based on the frequency of lookups, hence the presence of popular words such as “feminism” and “complicit”. 
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Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is a beacon of hope after an eventful 2017

sudshr47 December 12, 2017

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It’s that time of the year again when online dictionaries declare their Word of the Year which is usually the perfect commentary to look back at the past 12 months with renewed insight.

This year, “feminism” ranked first in the Merriam-Webster selection, beating “complicit” which Dictionary.com picked as their Word of the Year. 

2017 saw both a sustained rise in ‘feminism’ lookups and a number of event-driven spikes.

‘Feminism’ is our #WordOfTheYearhttps://t.co/CrEhuZe7HB

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