WTF, ‘Clickbait’ and ‘Emoji’ are now officially words?
As the English language continues to evolve in response the internet’s cultural onslaught, Merriam-Webster has announced that it’s adding a host of new net-centric terms to its pages. In fact, the dictionary company has recently added a total of 1,700 terms to its word repository. Among them: net neutrality, click fraud, meme, photobomb, NSFW and a host of other words your kids have already been using for years. Numerous other, non-technical words made their way into Merriam-Webster Unabridged as well including jegging, crema, and colossal squid.
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Source: Merriam-Webster
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