"Word nerd alert: Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds over 5,000 new words, including "petrichor," "teraflop," "dumbphone" and "ghost kitchen." The 12th edition of "Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary" comes 22 years after the book's last hard-copy update and amid declining U.S. sales for analog dictionaries overall, according to Circana BookScan."
"Petrichor, by the way, is a pleasant odor after a rainfall following a warm, dry period. Teraflop is a unit of measure for calculating the speed of a computer. Dumbphones are just that, mobile devices we used before the smartphone revolution. And ghost kitchens, which came into their own during the pandemic, are commercial spaces for hire. Other additions: "cold brew," "farm-to-table," "rizz," "dad bod," "hard pass," "adulting" and "cancel culture." There's also "beast mode," "dashcam," "doomscroll,""WFH" and "side-eye.""
Merriam-Webster released a fully revised 12th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary that adds more than 5,000 new words and over 20,000 usage examples. New entries include petrichor, teraflop, dumbphone, ghost kitchen, cold brew, rizz, dad bod, doomscroll, WFH and side-eye, among others. The print update arrives 22 years after the previous hard-copy edition, reflecting shifts toward online lookup for biographical and geographical facts. Two sparsely used biographical and geographical sections from the 11th edition were removed to make space. All additions were already available on Merriam-Webster.com. The new edition will be released Nov. 18 with preorders open.
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