Ever since about 1996, grammatical sticklers are fought against the runaway freight train-esque popularity of “embiggen”—a perfectly cromulent word made famous by The Simpsons that was technically not ...

“OH MY GAWWWDDDDD,” tweeted comics writer G. Willow Wilson today, at the announcement that Merriam-Webster had added “embiggen” to its dictionary of the English language, “I’m so floored even my ...

The official dictionary is a partnership with Merriam-Webster, which updates their own dictionary every year. The Scrabble dictionary team hadn’t put together a refresher since 2018, leading to this ...

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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Merriam-Webster added some new words to the dictionary this week and when it came to explaining ...

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Here is your word for the day: Embiggen. Let's use it in a sentence. "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." Congratulations. You've just used one of the 850 new words Merriam-Webster has added ...

Pop culture plays a huge part in the process of transforming made up, nonsensical words into perfectly acceptable parts of the lexicon. Today, Merriam-Webster announced via Twitter that “embiggen”—a ...

This news embiggens my spirit. On Monday, Merriam-Webster, the most social media-savvy dictionary, announced that 850 words had been added to its online dictionary. One of those words is embiggen, ...