Thursday July 06, 2006

Google Added To Dictionary

This year’s copy of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary got a little thicker with the addition of words like Google, Unibrow and Himbo. You know you are big when you make it into the dictionary.

"We need evidence that the word is showing up in publications that people are reading on an everyday basis," Morse said. Lexicographers comb through national newspapers, entertainment magazines, trade journals and Web sites in search of new words and phrases.