Dictionaries–Merriam Webster
Source: AP
Merriam-Webster Publishes New Collegiate Edition
M-W’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) available tomorrow, From the article, Once a decade, Merriam-Webster updates its best-selling dictionaryincludes 10,000 new words and more than 100,000 new meanings and revisions among its 225,000 definitions.” From the article, 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. The Web has spun the biggest influence on the American language in the past decade both with the new words it has spawned and the speed with which they have been adopted by the general public, said John Morse, president and publisher of Merriam-Webster.
Other additions include:
* “headbanger” (defined as both a hard rock musician and a fan)
* “dead presidents” (paper currency)
* “McJob” (low paying and dead-end work)
* “Frankenfood” (genetically engineered food)
* “longneck” (beer served in a bottle with a long neck)
See Also: An Overview of New Words from Merriam-Webster
See Also: Wordsmiths get own ‘funplex’ in revised Merriam-Webster (via Washington Times)

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