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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDo you need a new word ? More than 1,000 new words added to the dictionary.
From 'binge-watch' to 'Seussian'
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/new-words-in-the-dictionary-feb-2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/08/514074593/from-seussian-to-snollygoster-merriam-webster-adds-over-1-000-new-words
True Dough
(17,320 posts)I already have the BEST words (all 77 of 'em).
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Good answer.
MyshkinCommaPrince
(611 posts)Dr. Samuel Johnson: (places two manuscripts on the table, but picks up the top one)
Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English scholarship. This book,
sir, contains every word in our beloved language.
Prince Regent George: Hmm.
Edmund Blackadder: Every single one, sir?
Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir!
Blackadder: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if
I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafribblarities.
Johnson: What?
Blackadder: `Contrafribblarites', sir? It is a common word down our way.
Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book)
Blackadder: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anus-peptic, phrasmotic, even compunctious to have
caused you such pericombobulation.
Johnson: What? What? WHAT?
Prince: What are you on about, Blackadder? This is all beginning to sound a bit
like dago talk to me.
Blackadder: I'm sorry, sir. I merely wished to congratulate the Doctor on not having
left out a single word. (J sneers) Shall I fetch the tea, Your Highness?
Prince: Yes, yes -- and get that damned fire up here, will you?
Blackadder: Certainly, sir. I shall return interphrastically. (exits) (J writes some
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