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posted by July 7 at 12:47 PM
onThe Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary has unveiled their new edition, which features 100 new words. I know this is just a stupid publicity stunt, but I always fall for it. Some new additions to the official Merriam-Webster lexicon include:
Pescatarian, fanboy, edamame, mondegreen, infinity pool, dirty bomb, subprime, wing nut, mental health day, and air quotes.
I wish that infinity pool didn’t mean what the Merriam-Webster folks say it means:
an outdoor pool with one lower edge that allows water to gush over making it look like it flows into the horizon.
I wish that the above definition applied to the word mondegreen. To me, an infinity pool sounds like a beautiful trap, or a catch-22, or something along those lines.
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You've never seen an inifity pool? They are the shizzzz.
Mondegreen is a terrible new word -- I can't believe anyone actually uses it, other than someone overly pleased with their own cleverness.
Give it some time. The odds are fair that infinity pool will fall into disuse and be tossed upon the scrap heap of neologisms ready for recycling.
As a practicing pescatarian, glad to see representation in Webster's at long last. Gotta go now, I hear a fish taco calling me...
"Wing nut" is two words? Bullshit.
I know this sounds ridiculous, but I'm pretty sure my friend invented the word "pescatarian" at Bandoleone on Eastlake, 5 years ago.
If they can be used in Scrabble, I'm all for it. Isn't that what the dictionary is for, mercilessly defeating your Scrabble opponant?
Is there a list of the words that were dropped?
#7 Don't count on it. The Scrabble dictionary is very slow to update.
I am disappointed that "truthiness" or "wikiality" were not included in the new list.
Everyone knows it's fanboi, not fanboy.
They are so last century ...
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