According to its website, the current Oxford English Dictionary includes over 500,000 words. Sources appear to agree that dictionaries add approximately 1,000 new words each year. In September 2023, Merriam-Webster.com added 690 new words. In 2022, the Oxford dictionary added 650. With that ...
Here’s the long and jort of it: If you had “bingo card” being added to the dictionary in 2023 on your bingo card, you win. Yes, jorts and bingo card are just two of the 690 new entries to the Merriam-Webster dictionary that range from slang expressions tofood termsto digital phr...
Remember, words that are new to the dictionary are not always new to the language (or even remotely recent). Furthermore, the addition of a word to the dictionary is not an endorsement, but rather a documentation of its use in the real world. Our mission is to be descriptive—we work ...
Last year, Oxford Languages picked “rizz” as its word of the year; the Collins English Dictionary chose “AI”; Merriam-Webster went for “authentic.” Dictionary.com on Tuesday announced it had added more than 1,700 new or updated definitions — and with a range from “girl ...
If you've heard "goblin mode" or "swiftie" lately, it's thanks to them: Young girls are more innovative with language than any other group, linguists say.