Earlier today, Merriam-Webster announced that it'd added 200 new words and phrases to its online dictionary in its latest ...

Last year, the American publisher Merriam-Webster introduced 690 new words to its dictionary, ranging from the fictional slang term “padawan” to refer to a Jedi apprentice to the “deadname ...

Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, told us what criteria a word needs to meet in order to be added to the dictionary.

"The basic job of the dictionary is to tell the truth about words," the Merriam-Webster editor continued. "We've had dictionaries of English for 420 years and it's only been in the last 20 years ...