Merriam-Webster

P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 13, 2021
Have these people read “1984” or the Nuremberg Codes?  The editors at Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary have changed the definition of “anti-…
Brittany M. Hughes | October 14, 2020
It appears the Merriam-Webster Dictionary actually changed their definition of the word “preference” to include an “offensive” label next to the…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | June 10, 2020
It’s the kind of story that echoes citations of postmodernist linguistic maneuvering in the decades-long battle over the politicization of…
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Nick Kangadis | December 10, 2019
Even dictionaries gone “woke.” Dictionaries! Merriam-Webster has named the word “they” the word of the year for 2019. That’s not a typo. A pronoun…
Brittany M. Hughes | September 18, 2019
Looks like they've gone and done it, now. And by "they," I mean them.  No, no. Not multiple people. Just one. One person of the gender-non-…