640 new words were added in April to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. I've been saying one of them incorrectly: I say, "to-go cup" when I’m at Panera’s with my friend Adrienne, and apparently the approved, in the dictionary term is "go-cup."
My senior class high school English teacher, Mrs. Price, insisted we buy Merriam-Webster Collegiate dictionaries, and I'm still using that model (I have the 11th, which you can buy for about $30 or download for free, and I got mine for $1 at a used book store), and I have the 2nd International unabridged Merriam Webster (about 25 lbs) for interesting browsing which my grandmother gave my parents for x-mas in the 1950s. One of my cousins probably has their mother’s copy. Grandma was big on giving presents like magazines, books, and art supplies. My mother continued that tradition with her grandchildren. You can never know too many words.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/new-words-in-the-dictionary?
https://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2008/11/friday-family-photo-its-dictionary.html
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