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Tyra Banks wants the word 'smize' added to dictionary
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 15 (ANI): American TV star Tyra Banks recently expressed her desire to make a new addition to the dictionary. Over the course of her career, Banks has popularised the word 'smize' -- to smile with your eyes -- and is hoping for the word to join Merriam-Webster's ca
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'Vacay' among other 530 words added to Merriam-Webster in September
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 19 (ANI): If you are an ardent user of terms like 'sesh', 'vacay', or even 'tallboy', you are now free to express yourself even better as these along with other 530 words have made it to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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Trump's racist remarks make racism as most searched word
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 19 (ANI): As US President Donald Trump ratcheted up his attack on four minority congresswomen "squad" with his racist remarks, it appears people are reaching for their dictionaries in order to understand the meaning of his accusations.
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Scrabble Dictionary adds 300 new slang words including 'Emoji' and 'Ew'
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Massachusetts [United States], September 25 (ANI): The Merriam-Webster's Official Scrabble Players Dictionary is playing catch up by adding some of the new-age internet-influenced words to please the millennials.
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Pansexual: Understand your sexual orientation better
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [United States], Apr. 29 (ANI): The world, long ago, moved far from basic sexual orientation, that is heterosexual or homosexual. It had just started making peace with bisexual- a new kind of orientation that made space for itself. Let us call it pansexual.
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Twitter reacts to addition of word from 'The Simpsons' to dictionary
Updated : 8 years ago IST
London [U.K.], Mar. 06 (ANI): The addition of a word from the American sitcom, 'The Simpsons', to Merriam-Webster's dictionary, has sent Twitter wild.
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`Feminism` is Merriam-Webster's word of the year
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 13 (ANI): Several key moments of 2017 justify the selection of 'feminism' as Merriam-Webster's word of the year.
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