You might think that words have been around and haven’t changed, but new words are being added and changed in the dictionary all the time! We have our own dictionary known as the Urban Dictionary on the NAEye website.

New official abbreviations: 

• Vacay-vacation 
• Sesh-Session
• Insp-Inspiration

New meanings for words:

• Snowflake-Someone treated as special or unique
• Purple-An area that is a mix between democrats and republicans
• Tailwind and Headwind-Something that helps or hurts a process 
• Peak-Height of popularity
• New entertainment Words:
• Buzzy-Something generating a lot of attention
• Bottled episode-Inexpensively produced tv episode
• EGOT: The achievement of having an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony

The process of adding a new word to the dictionary is not a very difficult one. The first step includes a dictionary editor finding a word that has entered many people’s lives and can be used in today’s world. When an editor finds a word, they must cite the source they discovered it from.

The Merriam Webster dictionary has near to 17 million citations. There are people working at the Merriam webster to judge if words would be used if added to the dictionary.