Dictionary

2022 - 10 - 17

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10 surprising words that have been added to the dictionary this year (Yahoo News)

The Oxford English Dictionary added "influencer," "side hustle," and "pumpkin spice." Merriam Webster added "yeet" and "subvariant."

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Entered in the dictionary of Petit Robert, the "grazers" at the height of ... (Le Journal de l'Afrique)

The “brouteurs” now have a place in the French dictionary. For twenty years, they have implemented a veritable system of online scams.

So much so that the practice has spread to the rest of Africa, and in particular to Nigeria, the new cradle of “grazing”. In France, a majority of complaints remain unanswered, despite the work of associations that try to do prevention. Then Facebook and Messenger became the playgrounds of “grazers”. One of the characteristics of “grazing” is also its ability to adapt to technical developments. In 2011, the Ivorian Ministry of the Interior wanted to put an end to this practice by creating a special cell to fight against cybercrime. The "brouteur" who acts on the internet would thus have was designated "in reference to the sheep, which feeds without effort", already indicated Le Figaro in 2013.

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Stellar Service Brands CEO Sherry Rose Recognized in Franchise ... (PRNewswire)

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A Word, Please: Try not to shudder when you read this column (Los Angeles Times)

Some "careful users of the language" dislike the use of "headquarters" as a verb, even though it's easily understood, writes grammar expert June Casagrande.

The “headquarters” entry in AP today says only that, if you use it as a noun, it can take a singular or plural verb, depending on which works best in your sentence. I can’t pinpoint the exact year that AP’s style authorities changed their mind about the verb “headquarter,” but I can confirm that, at some point, they changed course. If you write that a company “is headquartered in New York City,” everyone will immediately get your meaning. Reference guides at the time, for example Webster’s New World College Dictionary, had long recognized “headquarter” as a verb. “Do not use ‘headquarter’ as a verb,” AP instructed at the time. Right or wrong, my boss had the authority to tell me how to do my job, so I just changed every instance of “headquartered in” to “with headquarters in” without question.

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How did yeet get in the dictionary? And what took side hustle so long? (Stuff.co.nz)

Yeet and Galentine's day were some weirder words added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and Merriam-Webster dictionaries in 2022. But side hustle and ...

Also more generally: a person whose views on gender identity are (or are considered) hostile to transgender people, or who opposes social and political policies designed to be inclusive of transgender people. A feminist whose advocacy of women's rights excludes (or is thought to exclude) the rights of transgender women. It even surprised Barbour’s 15-year-old daughter Samira, who told her Mum the word turning up in the dictionary was “so random”. We'd love your support today. It’s taken 40 years to make it in,” she says. “Dictionaries are capturing cultural history as well. Words added to the OED and Merriam-Webster dictionaries in 2022 I don't know what it means though,” Samira said. We don't say it any more. “It's also a political process because the type of people feeding words into dictionaries are people who have greater access to technology and higher education,” Barbour says. While TERF (acronym for a trans-exclusionary radical feminist) was first used in 2008, the first recorded use of side hustle was in 1982. Yeet and Galentine’s day were some weirder words added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and Merriam-Webster dictionaries in 2022.

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