Merriam-Webster announced the addition of 370 new words to its dictionary this month, including yeet, sus, cringe, LARP, and pwn.
These words will be easily recognizable to chronic users of the internet, having achieved widespread use. The Merriam-Webster dictionary aims to catalog how language is used, rather than how it should be used, so it often includes odd entries such as slang and internet acronyms. Other words that made the cut included video doorbell, supply chain, space force, and false negative. Acronyms such as FWIW and ICYMI were also included.
"Words in this category have traditionally taken longer to meet our criteria, but that timeline is getting shorter as the internet accelerates the adoption of informal language," the dictionary wrote. The juxtaposition of the professional dictionary with some of the example sentences used may result in some humor as well.
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