Words and their definitions change all the time.
Sometimes we try using a word in a different way, or in a new context, and it ends up sticking.
Ask any linguist, and they’ll tell you that the definition of a word is only accurate if that’s the way people are using it.
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.
Just as the language never stops evolving, the dictionary never stops expanding.
Merriam-Webster added 455 new words in Octobe
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.
A hyphen is an essential punctuation mark used to join words and show they have a combined meaning. Hyphens are the glue that hold words together, and like glue, they can get a little messy. It can be tricky to know when to use a hyphen and when to just leave a space.
If you’ve ever read the original texts of English writers like Shakespeare or Chaucer, you might have wondered if you were reading English at all. Not only did both writers write in verse, but they used different spellings of common words.
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