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Skibidi doesn't belong in the dictionary

Andi Zeisler
Merriam-Webster's dictionaries are displayed for sale at a Barnes & Noble store on January 11, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Merriam-Webster sums up 2024

Kelly McClure
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Merriam-Webster adds new food terms

Joy Saha
Antiquarian copies of The New English Dictionary on Historical Principles edited by Sir James Murray, line shelves in the Lee Library of the British Academy, on 17th September 2017, at 10-12 Carlton House Terrace, in London, England. (Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images)

Before Wikipedia, there was the OED

Erin Keane
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Looking up a word in the dictionary (Getty Images/JGI/Jamie Grill)

Merriam-Webster defines "chef's kiss"

Michael La Corte
Looking up a word in the dictionary (Getty Images/JGI/Jamie Grill)

"Climate crisis" is now in dictionaries

Kate Yoder - Grist
Looking up a word in the dictionary (Getty Images/JGI/Jamie Grill)

7 fake words now in the dictionary

Angela Tung - Mental Floss
They as singular (Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

"They" is Merriam-Webster's Word of 2019

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The dictionary gets embiggened

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Asha Parker
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A field guide to calling BS

Paula Young Lee

Our frustrated emoji year

Erin Coulehan
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New slang is old hat in OED

Paula Young Lee
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The Word Of The Year is "Vape"
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Leanne Italie
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Stop calling people "aliens"

Careen Shannon
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