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eBay is bustling with rare coins, with many eBay sellers looking to make big bucks from their small change. One coin that bring in the big bucks is a “rare” Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary 50p coin. Much to the seller’s delight the coin sold for a staggering £2,430, 4,860 times its intended 50p value. The coin […]
FOX Merriam-Webster added the word “embiggen” to its dictionary. The word first appeared as a joke in a 1996 episode of “The Simpsons,” but has since been used in other contexts. Other words added to the dictionary include “blockchain,” “glamping,” and “mansplain.” Merriam-Webster added the word “embiggen” to its pages on Monday, the dictionary giant […]
Korea Pool via AP Female North and South Korean hockey players will compete on the same team at the upcoming Olympic Games. It’s the first time the rivals have ever joined up to compete together in the Olympics. But the players and coaches are facing a new challenge: The two Koreas speak increasingly different languages, […]
Pop quiz: What do This Is Us, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Superior Donuts and The Real Housewives of New York City all have in common? A whole lotta nothing, right? Except that each series coined a slangtastic new term that’s included in the 2017 TV Dictionary, TVLine’s rundown of the quirktacular words and […]
Although she made history by becoming the first woman to play the iconic Time Lord, Jodie, 35, some have already slammed the actress because of her gender. With many saying they would be boycotting the BBC’s long-running sci-fi show, Merriam-Webster, an American dictionary publisher has seemingly backed Jodie with a simple definition. The wordsmith posted […]
In his irreverent 1906 masterpiece, The Devil’s Dictionary, the 19th-century American writer Ambrose Bierce took aim at all manner of human hypocrisies, sins and shortcomings by penning a lexicon of cynical word definitions for a cynical age. In the latest installment of The Devil’s Guide, we channel Bierce’s sardonic spirit to explore the true meanings […]
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 […]
