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Merriam-Webster's Twitter handle humorously critiqued the concept of micro-retirement, popular among Gen Z, suggesting it's ...
Casiano, Louis. "Missouri Woman Says She Contacted Merriam-Webster to Change Dictionary Definition of Racism." Fox News.9 June 2020. Greenfield, Daniel.
Merriam-Webster, in a recent tweet, poked fun at the viral workplace trend gaining popularity among Gen Z employees: ...
D’oh! Merriam-Webster surprised fans of “The Simpsons” by adding the word “cromulent” to the dictionary as part of the most recent update, making it official with the made-up term that ...
Kennedy Mitchum wasn’t expecting much when she emailed Merriam-Webster last month, but she wanted to let the dictionary publisher know that she thought its definition of the word racism was ...
The idea for those tweets came from the dictionary's Trend Watch feature, Lauren Naturale, social media manager at Merriam-Webster, told Vox.com.When people are looking up a word at a higher rate ...
Merriam-Webster says yes The dictionary publisher's guidance on the practice has people riled up. Grammarians say the made-up rule is one big waste of time. Not everyone is ready to let it go.
In early July 2020, social media users asked Snopes.com to verify whether it was true that the Merriam-Webster dictionary had newly recognized "irregardless" as a word in the English language.
Merriam-Webster is revising its entry on racism after a recent college graduate in Missouri, inspired by the protests and debates about what it means to be racist, urged editors to make changes.
By the high-gloss, high-tech standards of 21 st-century corporate life, the headquarters of America’s premier dictionary publisher is an unusual place.Merriam-Webster Inc. is housed in a two ...
First, people claimed that Merriam-Webster sneakily changed the definition of the word “anti-vaxxer” to include people who oppose laws that mandate vaccination.It didn’t ...
Merriam-Webster changed "immunity" to "immune response" in its definition of "vaccine" to be more scientifically accurate, the dictionary said.