Merriam-Webster recently announced its latest slate of additions to the dictionary—some 200 new words and definitions that, as usual, are an eclectic blend of ones you probably assumed already ...

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Mencken, H L (1919) The American Language. Knopf, New York —Mencken, H L (1945) The American Language, Supplement I. Knopf, New York —Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (2000, 10th ed.) ...

The AWA seems to be concerned only with the psychological type of distress, which the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary 2 refers to as “mental strain and stress”, in contrast to the physical ...

US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster has acquired a hit Wordle-style game. The original Wordle, created by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle, challenges players to find a five-letter word in ...

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Pain is an undesirable potential consequence of many of the procedures conducted on animals in the course of scientific research, and in most cases it is unnecessary. The US Congress, the public ...

2 Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged (Merriam-Webster, 2002). Webster’s also notes that the meaning of charity is rooted in Christian doctrine. 3 This latter provision is perhaps ...

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The term “jaywalking” dates to the early 20th century and has its roots in Midwestern slang for a country bumpkin or rube, ...

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