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Florida's book bans have now come for dictionaries
The Advocate via Yahoo News· 5 months agoFlorida’s book banning practices this year apparently resulted in a Webster’s dictionary being yanked from school shelves. A records request to the...
Merriam-Webster just yeeted a bunch of internet slang into the dictionary
Engadget· 2 years agoLanguage purists will have to get real cool with internet buzzwords and slangs those "darn kids"...
Banh mi and omakase join the dictionary. What it says about Asian cultural influence.
NBC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen Andrea Nguyen was growing up in the 1970s and 80s, banh mi was still an insular Asian...
The Oxford English Dictionary declares 'rizz' is the 2023 word of the year
TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIt's official: Rizz is the word of the year, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. What does...
Happy hygge! Scrabble dictionary adds hundreds of words
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoYour convos around the board are about to get more interesting with about 500 new words and...
Wordle clone Quordle acquired by Merriam-Webster
TechCrunch· 1 year agoMerriam-Webster, the Encyclopædia Britannica subsidiary best known for its online dictionary, has acquired a popular Wordle clone called Quordle. Quordle...
Kelly Clarkson Reveals She Bought Her First Dictionary Because of Alanis Morissette
Billboard via Yahoo News· 8 months agoKelly Clarkson has Alanis Morissette to thank for her interest in words. On the Thursday (Oct. 19)...
2023's words of the year actually make sense together in business world
The Tennessean via Yahoo Finance· 6 months ago“For last year's words belong to last year's languageAnd next year's words await another voice.”―...
9 Florida kids are competing at the Scripps Spelling Bee. Who's representing your city?
Herald-Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt's that time of the year again, when adults give thanks to auto-correct and hundreds of kids...
As kids go back to school, here’s some slang parents should know
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 10 months agoBack-to-school necklace meaning. What’s a back-to-school necklace? What does 420 mean? What does...