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Martin68
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April 5, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-says-he-has-the-best-words-merriam-webster-disagrees/2017/04/04/01eea7ac-1973-11e7-855e-4824bbb5d748_story.html?utm_term=.78361032f97d
Trump says he has the best words. Merriam-Webster disagrees.
The Miriam-Webster Dictionary has been tweeting amusingly snarky jabs at Trump since his election.
When John Dean of Watergate fame predicted calamity for Donald Trumps presidency, Merriam-Websters official account tweeted about the prognostication, adding its definition: an event that causes great harm and suffering.
If you are unaccustomed to finding such information in the dictionary, you havent been keeping up with the new Merriam-Webster, which has been throwing the book definition: to punish (someone) as severely as possible at Trump.
fter Trump won the election, the dictionary announced that lookups for misogyny spiked after Trumps victory and illustrated the tweet with a photo of Tic Tacs, a reference to Trumps on-camera boasting about sexual assault.
Merriam-Webster has shown that a word can be worth 50,000 retweets, as when it responded to Conways alternative facts remark by saying: A fact is a piece of information presented as having objective reality. After Conway said she was uncomfortable being called a feminist, Merriam-Webster tweeted: Feminism is defined as the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-says-he-has-the-best-words-merriam-webster-disagrees/2017/04/04/01eea7ac-1973-11e7-855e-4824bbb5d748_story.html?utm_term=.78361032f97d
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Name: Martin JohnsonGender: Male
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