If you had to define 2021 with just one word what would it be? Merriam-Webster Editor-at-Large Peter Sokolowski talks about what words were most on people's minds throughout the year. If you had to ...
Editor: If we judge 2025 by just the new words that have entered the lexicon in the past year we’re certainly in a Brave New World. One that is certainly bizarre and inscrutably opague. According to ...
How do we define slurs like the N-word? Whether it’s heated debates about racist or ableist slurs, arguments about gender, or even new kinds of... Racist slurs, naughty words, and how dictionary ...