In 2003, Merriam-Webster kicked off the annual tradition of choosing a "word of the year," based on search volume on the dictionary ... tensest election years in history. Beating out close ...
On Tuesday afternoon, Merriam-Webster tweeted that ... blog post on the Oxford English Dictionary's website points out that the singular they has a long history of use in the English language ...
The new edition’s bombshell shift, which brought cheers from Society for Editing conference attendees, involved dictionaries — a switch from Webster’s New World Dictionary to Merriam-Webster.