•September 14, 2022•
By Jim Baumann

Just when I think I might be afflicted with writer’s block, this manna from Merriam-Webster floats over the e-transom.
Yes, folks, it’s time for M-W to add new words to its dictionary.
For those of you who bristle at the acceptance of new words into reference books, this might be hard to swallow.
Their inclusion in a dictionary, however, doesn’t require you to use them.
I, for one, use only 25,000 or so words, I reckon, of the 470,000 in M-W’s unabridged dictionary.
Not because I’m finicky, mind you, but because I just can’t keep many more in my head or would ever find occasion to use them.
Here are my reactions to some of the additions:     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.