The real debate isn’t whether internet slang counts as “proper English”, but which words get preserved and which are left to vanish, says NUS Centre for Language Studies’ Daniel Chan.
Jawn has officially made the history books, as the all-purpose Philadelphia slang was added to a leading online dictionary this week. Dictionary.com entered jawn into its lexicon on Wednesday, as part ...
Kennedy Mitchum, 22, said the dictionary definition needed to be expanded to include systemic racism. The dictionary’s editors agreed. By Christine Hauser Merriam-Webster is revising its entry on ...
Merriam-Webster adds 5,000 new words to dictionary - ‘Hard pass,’ ‘adulting’ and ‘cancel culture’ are all included ...
Merriam-Webster will release its first new Collegiate Dictionary in 20+ years Nov. 18, adding 5,000 words, 1,000 phrases and ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. On Tuesday, Dictionary.com announced its own ...