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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

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Illustrative: In this Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, photo the word pandemic is displayed in a dictionary in Washington. Merriam-Webster on Monday announced “pandemic” as its 2020 word of the year. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
September 8, 2022, 8:46 pm
Merriam-Webster adds pumpkin spice, ICYMI to dictionary
‘Words offer a window into our ever-changing language and culture,’ says Merriam-Webster’s editor Peter Sokolowsk
By Mark Pratt
Illustrative: In this June 19, 1938, picture, the word Jude (Jew) is smeared on the windows of a shop in Berlin run by Jews. (AP Photo, FILE)
February 17, 2022, 9:56 am
German dictionary changes ‘Jew’ definition after outcry over tie to Nazi use of word
Update made after Germany’s Jewish community rejects claim that ‘Jude’ may be discriminatory due to ‘the memory’ of word’s deployment in Holocaust
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Photos of the Krieger family and a graphic t-shirt of the word 'orbisculate,' which Hilary and Jonathan Krieger are working to get into the dictionary in honor of their late father, Neil. (Courtesy)
March 18, 2021, 3:35 am
You can’t look it up… yet: Siblings seek to honor late dad with ‘orbisculate’
After losing their father Neil to COVID-19 last year, his children are on a mission to commemorate him by having a term he coined officially added to the English lexicon
By Cathryn J. Prince
The word 'pandemic' in seen in a dictionary. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
December 1, 2020, 5:18 pm
Dictionaries agree on 2020 Word of the Year: ‘Pandemic’
In first, Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com make same selection, whose web searches were over 1,000% higher than usual for months after stratospheric spike on March 11
By Leanne Italie
An archivist at the National Library of Israel displays a letter dated 1900 by Oxford English Dictionary editor James Murray, at the library in Jerusalem on February 27, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
May 4, 2020, 5:19 pm
Letter shows first dictionary editor thought ‘anti-Semite’ wouldn’t be used
National Library archivist says correspondence between James Murray and Claude Montefiore about absence of term from lexicon highlights British Jews’ concern about discrimination
By Jonah Mandel
An Oxford English Dictionary is shown at the headquarters of the Associated Press in New York, August 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)
February 15, 2020, 1:49 am
Oxford dictionary gets new Jewish-themed entries; some are likely to offend
Among terms added to latest edition of the OED are a number of Yiddish words, derogatory phrases for Jews such as ‘bagel’ and ‘yiddo,’ which fans of English soccer club go by
By Gabe Friedman
This photo taken in New York on Dec. 11, 2017, shows the word feminism listed in the dictionary. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)
December 12, 2017, 10:48 pm
Merriam-Webster’s 2017 word of the year: ‘Feminism’
Editor of top American English dictionary points to Harvey Weinstein scandal, Kellyanne Conway speech for leading to increase in searches for word
By Leanne Italie
This undated screen shot provided by Dictionary.com shows the word "complicit," on the Dictionary.com website. (Dictionary.com via AP)
November 27, 2017, 10:27 pm
Dictionary.com chooses ‘complicit’ as word of the year
Online wordbook says searches for the term spiked on 3 different occasions, 2 of which involved Ivanka Trump
By Leanne Italie
Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath holding her 'Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary.' (The Jewish Standard)
November 1, 2016, 8:59 pm
New dictionary updates Yiddish for era of transgender, tablets and tweets
Need a new pair of ‘fingershikh’? Building on her Yiddish linguist father’s corpus, Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath publishes the first English-Yiddish resource guide in four decades
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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