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Merriam-Webster

@MerriamWebster

This is how a word gets into the dictionary. merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/

1:27 PM · Sep 9, 2016

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Merriam-Webster

@MerriamWebster

How does a word get into the dictionary? Very slowly.

merriam-webster.com

How a Word Gets Into the Dictionary

Part One: The Process

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Muriel Silberstreif

Is the Shakespeare-exemption really seriously a rule? Because it seems fishy to me and I'd hope it's a joke?

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Merriam-Webster

@MerriamWebster

Lexicographers are notoriously untrustworthy.

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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice

I'm changing my name to Shakespeare

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Merriam-Webster

@MerriamWebster

💡💡💡

@monacobutterfly

😂😭😂 #notoriouslyuntrustworthy

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All the special snowflakes are going to be triggered by the lack of cares.

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um won't become a word I hope

how does a word get out of the dictionary?

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@Maximus_Honkmus

there's only one word for this level of bantz

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