These Words Were Born in Your Favorite Literature and Poetry
Sometimes, words you read are not considered real words yet.
A word gets added to the dictionary based on the popularity of its usage.
Here are eight words that did just that.
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Merriam-Webster Added 455 New Words in October
Just as the language never stops evolving, the dictionary never stops expanding.
Merriam-Webster added 455 new words in Octobe
9 Words No Longer in the Dictionary
The English language is comprised of thousands and thousands of words (more than 170,000 in the Oxford English Dictionary). But as language evolves and new vocabulary (including slang) is coined, older words that have fallen out of favor are continually retired and removed from dictionaries.
The “Publisher’s Dictionary”
Back when I was a rising fifth grader, the supplies list for school included a dictionary. That’s “dictionary”—as in a printed volume with pages and a hard-red cover and the word “DICTIONARY” in white lettering across the front.
“So you can look up words, learn how to spell them—and also learn the meanings,” our teacher assured us.
“How can you look up a word if you don’t know how to spell it?” I asked with perfect ten-year-old logic.
