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Don’t know what that means? Me neither. But italicized above are just a few of the 690 new words the sadistic logophiles at Merriam-Webster added to the dictionary this week.

Webster's Third New International Dictionary has now replaced the venerable second edition (1934) in all bookstores. Hopefully, much more time will elapse before this skimpy lexical parvenu pushes its ...