{"id":15538,"date":"2018-09-18T18:27:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T18:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15538"},"modified":"2018-09-18T18:27:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T18:27:21","slug":"merriam-webster-adds-new-words-thatll-make-english-teachers-cringe-but-youll-be-perfectly-fine-with-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=15538","title":{"rendered":"Merriam-Webster adds new words that&#8217;ll make English teachers cringe (but you&#8217;ll be perfectly fine with them)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>No need to study this month to increase your vocabulary. Merriam-Webster added 840 new words to the dictionary &#8212;  and chances are, you probably know many of them. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">A bulk of the new entries are already widely used, but a few additions will horrify old-school grammarians.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;<strong>Rando<\/strong>,&#8221; &#8220;<strong>adorbs<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>fav<\/strong>&#8221; are now sanctioned words. Blended words such as &#8220;<strong>mocktail<\/strong>&#8221; or &#8220;<strong>hangry<\/strong>&#8221; (hungry + angry) have made it in their own right. But possibly the most outlandish is &#8220;<strong>TL;DR<\/strong>,&#8221; which is shorthand for &#8220;too long; didn&#8217;t read.&#8221; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)No need to study this month to increase your vocabulary. Merriam-Webster added 840 new words to the dictionary &#8212; and chances are, you probably know many of them. A bulk of the new entries are already widely used, but a few additions will horrify old-school grammarians.&#8221;Rando,&#8221; &#8220;adorbs&#8221; and &#8220;fav&#8221; are now sanctioned words. Blended words&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}