Thirty-nine volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stand as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers after 140 years.
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Guffipedia – Lucy Kellaway’s dictionary of business jargon and corporate nonsense
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Danish dictionary to weed out gender stereotypes – ‘career women’ are now paired with ‘career men’ and manslaughter is a linguistic offence
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What Five Letters? A search dictionary for Wordle.
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War of words as Nigerian English recognised by Oxford English Dictionary
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Merriam-Webster singles out nonbinary 'they' for word of the year honors
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Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler: Words by year of appearance
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Merriam-Webster adds sense of ‘they’ as a pronoun for nonbinary people to the dictionary
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Yowza! Scrabble adds bae, fleek, mansplain and thousands more words to dictionary
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Dictionaries recently added more than 1,500 words. Here are some new entries.
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Time Traveller by Merriam-Webster—Find out when a word was first used in print
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Yowza! 300 new words added to Scrabble dictionary
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Since the 1960s, dictionaries have cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing.
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