12 Times the Merriam-Webster Twitter Was the Definition of Sassy

الخميس، 23 فبراير 2017

12 Times the Merriam-Webster Twitter Was the Definition of Sassy

With the country the way it is today, you can find politics in even the most unexpected places. One such place is the twitter page for Merriam-Webster's dictionary...No really! Whoever's running their social media is dropping truth bombs on the regular and it's awesome. Check out some of our favorites below:

1.

📈'Feminism' is defined as "the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities." https://t.co/Zjf7CAPUjL
-- Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) February 23, 2017

2.

*whispers into the void* In contemporary use, fact is understood to refer to something with actual existence. https://t.co/gCKRZZm23c
-- Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) January 24, 2017

3.

'Rescind' means "to take away; remove." https://t.co/tph59MnS3o
-- Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) February 23, 2017

4.

Good morning! The #WordOfTheDay is...not 'unpresidented'. We don't enter that word. That's a new one. https://t.co/BJ45AtMNu4
-- Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) December 17, 2016

5.

People keep
1) saying they don't know what 'genderqueer' means

then

2) asking why we added it to the dictionary http://pic.twitter.com/wsGZ7Y6XB8
-- Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) April 25, 2016

6.

Trust us: the feminine form of 'ghostbuster' is 'ghostbuster'.
-- Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) July 15, 2016

7.

Note that more people are looking up 'lepo-' (as in, "what's a lepo?") than 'Aleppo'. #debate https://t.co/SvAqKWp3bz
-- Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) October 10, 2016

8.

1) 'Surreal' is one of the most common lookups following a tragedy
2) 'Surreal' is our 2016 Word of the Yearhttps://t.co/O7azAyRQC1
-- Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) December 19, 2016