07 FEB

CRISPR, ‘binge-watch’ and ‘botnet’ are now in the dictionary

The vocabulary experts who decide which terms get added to the Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary are at it again. Today, over 1,000 new words made the cut from fields like science, tech, medicine pop culture, sports and more. Among the new additions are CRISPR, botnet and binge-watch alongside microbiome, truther, SCOTUS and FLOTUS. Other notable new entries include Seussian — of, relating to, or suggestive of the works of Dr. Seuss — and the technical term for the inability to recognize faces: prosopagnosia. Merriam-Webster doesn’t publish the full list of new additions, but you can take a brief survey via the source link below.

Source: Merriam-Webster

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