NSFW, WTF, Crema, Click-Bait, Vocal Fry and Many More Words Added to Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary
From Merriam-Webster:
It’s happened again: this dictionary [Merriam-Webster Unabridged] has gotten bigger.
As of last week, it’s grown by more than 1,700 entries, and existing entries have expanded by more than 700 new senses. We’ve added 3,200 examples that provide contextual information, and another 200 entries for some of the words people most frequently look up have been updated and enhanced.
The remainder of the article a look at 22 of the new entries. Here are 10 of them.
- Click Bait
- Colony Collapse Disorder
- Crema
- Dark Money
- Net Neutrality
- NSFW
- Palliative Care
- Photobomb
- Vocal Fry
- WTF
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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