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In the internet age, language evolves faster than your computer's dictionary. Even if you only speak English, new words such as "rizz," "girlboss," and "microtransaction" keep popping up. No matter ...
The fascinating thing about languages is that they're constantly changing, meaning they're not dead. With time, languages survive because the meaning behind words evolves, and new words are created ...
The dictionary on your iPhone picks up words from your address book, which you can use to your advantage. The next time autocorrect changes a perfectly valid word to something else, just open the ...
What’s the deal with new words? Where do they come from and how do they go from obscure to official? First, new words have to circulate in culture to make it into the dictionary. They have to be used ...
The word “lewk” was added to Cambridge this year, three years after it was added to Merriam-Webster and more than a decade ...
They can all now be found in the Cambridge dictionary. They're among some of the 6,000 new words, phrases and meanings that ...