The Internet has sired and popularized a huge range of new terms. Twerking and trolling, Karens and -core, dumpster fire and microaggression and post-truth and safe spaces, Covid and rawdog and OK Boomer have floated into the mainstream vocabulary. As absurd or obscene as these words may be, dictionary editors track them, keeping an eye on their usage and circulation. And if the words meet a set of rigorous standards, the editors allow them into the book itself, or at least the online version. That’s because the role of the contemporary dictionary is not to prescribe how we talk but to describe how language is used.
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