Merriam-Webster has added 533 new words and new meanings to the dictionary as well as more than 4000 revisions to definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, and dates of first known use. New words ...
One morning in 2001, Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster, arrived at work and was given a single word: “take.” She set to work hunting down examples of where the verb form of the word ...