New words find place in updated Webster’s

CNN Is One Place To Read An AP Article on The 11th edition of The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, available in bookstores Tuesday, includes 10,000 new words and more than 100,000 new meanings and revisions among its 225,000 definitions.

Some of the new words have been a longtime getting the widespread assimilation that merits a move from the unabridged dictionary to the Collegiate. The citation file on the Yiddish exclamation “oy,” for example, dates back to the immigrant waves of the 1890s. Others have zoomed into the language with the speed of the Internet.

Pop culture still remains a vibrant source of new words, with such additions as “headbanger” (defined as both a hard rock musician and a fan), “dead presidents” (paper currency), “McJob” (low paying and deadend work), and “Frankenfood” (genetically engineered food).

June 30, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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