Merriam-Webster’s Twitter account made a post yesterday remembering the loss of “thon,” a proposed gender-neutral pronoun used in the 1930s
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Merriam-Webster Adds ‘Throw Shade’ and ‘NSFW’ to the Dictionary
The very good people over at Merriam-Webster have just updated the dictionary with 1,000 new words, and two of them are ‘throw shade’ and ‘NSFW’
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