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The official Twitter account of reference-book publishers Merriam-Webster seemingly did a "spit-take" after Amanda Knox made a joke online.

Jeremy David Hanson also allegedly made a threatening message, which contained a transphobic slur, through the dictionary's contact form.

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Vaccine was chosen in part because of a 608 percent increase in the number of times the word was searched in 2020 and a 1,048 percent increase this year.

Merriam-Webster said "anti-vaxxer" is also used particularly often to describe "a parent who opposes having his or her child vaccinated."

Merriam-Webster said the word "came immediately to the fore as we examined the data that determines what our Word of the Year will be."

The dictionary says that this insult originated with an illiterate priest who accidentally said "mumpsimus" rather than "sumpsimus"—meaning "we have taken" in Latin—during a mass service.

Players racking their brains for that elusive triple-word score have been granted many more options by Scrabble's elders.

"After having written many best selling books, and somewhat priding myself on my ability to write," Trump bragged via a tweet in which he misspelled the word "pour."

There are many definitions of the word, but they all describe the same adjective: weak.

Merriam-Webster chooses feminism as the word of 2017 after the Women's Marches in January and #MeToo dominated social media in late 2017

It's a suffix.