Last week we posted that the Oxford English Dictionary had added several new terms to its dictionary including Google, as a verb.

Today, news that the 2006 update of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition also includes Google as a verb. You can find a sampling of new words here along with this interesting “Glossary of New Words” from M-W in 1806.

Just for snicks…Can you name another web engine that has been a verb for a long time? What about “Ask”.com?. The OED shows uses of it as a verb back to about the year 1000. (-:

Btw, in case you’re wondering about the first use of Yahoo as a noun (NOT meaning Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle) it comes from Gulliver’s Travels in 1726, according to the OED. As an intransitive verb–Yahoo, we won!–OED lists 1976 and adds, “In some cases supposedly characteristic of cowboys, esp. when executing daring feats on horseback, etc.” Filo and Yang’s Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle (Yahoo!) came into existence somewhere around September 1994, when Jerry Yang mentioned the directory on a USENET group.

See Also: Dictionaries: The June Issue of the Oxford English Dictionary Newsletter is Now Online; Google As a Verb Now in Oxford English (6/29/06)

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