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What Words Came Out The Year You Were Born?
What Words Came Out The Year You Were Born?
What Words Came Out The Year You Were Born?
Geek out, hoodie, mixed martial arts, props, shout-out, spam, tighty-whities, twentysomething, world wide web. What do these words have in common? These words all made their Merriam-Webster debut in the glorious year of 1990 when yours truly entered the world.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary Word of the Year: ‘ISM’
Merriam-Webster Dictionary Word of the Year: ‘ISM’
Merriam-Webster Dictionary Word of the Year: ‘ISM’
Merriam-Webster Dictionary has picked their ‘word of the year’, and like Oxford Dictionary's word of the year, it’s not a word. Merriam-Webster picked a suffix as their word of the year: 'ism'
Words You May Not Know and What They Mean
Words You May Not Know and What They Mean
Words You May Not Know and What They Mean
Everything has a name or a word associated with it. You may not know the name or may call it something else, but all things have a legitimate name assigned to it. Taking a look at some you probably don’t know (I know I didn’t) but there may a few you have heard before.