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Trump supporter arrested for threatening to murder dictionary editors over definition of “female”
The suspect was angry at Merriam Webster for supporting “the cultural Marxist, anti-science tr**ny agenda” and said it will “degrade the English language and deny reality.”
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Dictionary.com just added a lot of LGBTQ words but will use “homosexuality” less
Is the word “homosexuality” offensive? The dictionary website is moving away from it while embracing “Pride” and “ace.”
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Gender-neutral pronoun ‘they’ is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year
People were looking up the pronoun “they” a lot more in 2019 than they ever did before.
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Webster’s adds ‘they’ as a non-binary pronoun… plus a few other queer words
Some people have a problem with it, but “they” has been used a non-gendered pronoun for over 600 years.
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‘Pansexual’ became one of the most looked up words of 2018 after Janelle Monáe came out
The singer and actress said she identified as pansexual in an interview with Rolling Stone.
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How did gay come to mean homosexual?
Gay people didn’t “steal” a word that means happy. Still, how did gay come to mean homosexual? Let’s find out.
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Throwing ‘shade’ and ‘microaggressions’ added to Merriam-Webster dictionary
In addition to elevating “surreal” as 2016’s word of the year, the dictionary company added about 1,000 new words and new definitions.