Merriam-Webster loaded over 400 new words into their dictionary last year, mostly tech or slang.
We are now at the point where Word Authorities must begin taking out words.
Forget archaic or out-out-of usage words: start with words that just annoy me.
Netizen. No.
FOMO. I have looked it up a half dozen times and still have to look it up.
The plural of Meyers. If Bob and Sue Meyers are a newly married couple, the New Yorker--land of fact-checkers--says they are now "The Meyerses." Look at that spelling.
Let me out of here.
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