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FUNNY WOMEN: Other Contenders for 2017’s Word of the Year
Fückit: When you’ve had enough, more than enough, but somehow enough is never enough, and I put wine in my cereal now.
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A Living, Tweeting Dictionary
Following a viral Twitter interaction about whether the dictionary is adapting too much to new trends in language, Merriam-Webster reassures everyone that language changes over time, and that’s okay.
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The Buzz on Spelling Bees
For Merriam-Webster’s website, Peter Sokolowski details the history of spelling bees and the etymology of the term itself: This kind of spelling duel was carried over to America, and Benjamin Franklin himself recommended the practice in 1750, with the addition…