NEW YORK — Attention, word nerds: This is your bonus round, courtesy of Merriam-Webster. In addition to elevating “surreal” in 2016 to word of the year, the dictionary company on Tuesday added about 1 ...

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This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and demonstrates how technology trends shape modern language evolution.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Showing what would happen if your computer's spell check became sentient and snarkily judgmental, whoever runs Merriam-Webster's Twitter ...

"A subtweet is a standalone response to someone else's tweet that does not mention the other person or their tweet at all" — that is Merriam-Webster's definition of a subtweet, something the ...

You may want to yeet your old Merriam-Webster book, as the publishing company decided to level up and serve lewks by including 370 new words and phrases to its dictionary. In a move that could be seen ...

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...

Merriam-Webster, the venerable dictionary publisher, announced last week that it would update its definition of the word “racism” in response to a request by a 22-year-old woman from Missouri. But ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

Merriam-Webster dictionary changed its definition of “sexual preference” to include the word “offensive” as Democrats slammed Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett for using the term during ...

Word nerds FTW! Merriam-Webster has added 455 new words and definitions to the dictionary — including nods to online culture, food favourites and the pandemic — to reflect our ever-evolving language.