Whenever I asked my mom how to spell a word back in elementary school, she’d always respond with, “Go look it up in the dictionary!” which never made much sense to me. I wasn’t trying to determine the word’s meaning; I just wanted to know how it was spelled, and if I didn’t know that, how was I supposed to find it in the dictionary? Oh motherly advice…
But some of Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary’s new additions are both easy to spell and contain provocative definitions, such as “f-bomb,” “sexting,” “man cave” and more. These additions were published today in the 114 year old dictionary.