New words, grammar words, and World Englishes: another update for the Macmillan Dictionary

Source: Macmillan Dictionary
Story flagged by: Paula Durrosier

Another of our regular updates has just gone live, and it’s our biggest yet. As always, there have been additions and improvements right across the dictionary, with well over 600 changes this time. These include almost 400 completely new words and meanings, so let’s start by looking at those.

Among the several hundred neologisms which have just entered the dictionary, many are random coinages, but a good number come from those areas of our social and economic lives which have produced so many new words and meanings in recent years. More.

See: Macmillan Dictionary

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