There are reports that Merriam-Webster who produce the official dictionary for Scrabble have released an updated edition with 300 words added. Some of those words are featured here at this post on the Merriam-Webster website. Probably the biggest news is that ‘OK’ is now on the approved list. If you’re not happy about that you …
For a change this list of words being added to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary in 2018 not only contains words I know, but even a few that I’m surprised aren’t already there. Some abbreviations: guac, fave. Some tech words: force quit, predictive. Some geek words: adorbs, TL;DR. And more. Read the list at Mental Floss.
This effort at standardising English pronunciation is surprisingly understandable. It also provides an interesting progression in accent as the process develops.
It’s always fun to keep up with collective nouns for groups of different animals. This article from Mental Floss has some I’d not heard of. A walk of snails (or an escargatoire) A coterie of prairie dogs. A bale of turtles. A wisdom of wombats. Among others. Some sound made up, but the ones I …
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