“Vape” Until You Feel “Cultured”: Links You Need to See
Oxford Dictionaries called dibs on “vape” a while back (yet my computer still vehemently wants to autocorrect it to “cape”), so it was obviously a challenge for Merriam-Webster to find their own word...
View ArticleGoogle vs. Merriam-Webster: 2014 Was a Weird Year for Search Terms
Almighty Google, index of indexes, inventory of human life, infinitely linked panlexicon of terms, has released “A Year in Search,” its booleanized breakdown of World Thought. “In 2014,” Google says,...
View ArticleDo Overused Words Lose Their Meaning?
Three articles have appeared in the last week wondering about the meaningless of certain words. After Han Kang’s The Vegetarian won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for fiction, Merriam-Webster...
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