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26 Oct 2018
Our most recent push of new and revised content to ahdictionary.com is now live! Hundreds of entries have been revised. Newly entered words include amatriciana, cotija, kompromat, and welp.
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26 Oct 2018
Check out the kompromat etymology:
ALT A screenshot of the etymology of the word "kompromat" in the American Heritage Dictionary.
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22 Oct 2018
Thank you, @lanegreene !
20 Sep 2018
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16 Oct 2018
The 2018 update of the Fifth Edition comes out today! It's the 50 Anniversary printing of the American Heritage Dictionary.
Thousands of revisions have been made *in print* since the publication of the Fifth Edition in 2011. (More details in comments!)
ISBN: 978-1328841698
ALT Cover of the 2018 printing of the American Heritage Dictionary, with "50 Years of Excellence" sticker
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16 Oct 2018
These revisions are now in print!
•New entries (such as crowdfunding, cryptocurrency, and e-cigarette)
•New senses of existing words, (as at brick and reality check, for example).
•Newly synthesized elements (such as nihonium and tennessine) and an updated periodic table
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16 Oct 2018
•Revisions that that reflect style changes to the main entry form:
- cellphone as a solid word (along with the open compound variant)
- internet with a lowercase i (along with the uppercase variant)
- email as a solid word (along with the hyphenated variant)
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American Heritage retweeted
15 Sep 2018
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6 Apr 2018
The etymology of quetzal can be traced back to Proto-Uto-Aztecan.
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American Heritage retweeted
3 Apr 2018
Researching on the fly to bring YOU the best dictionary-related podcast that money cannot buy (because it's free)! Coming soon.
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7 Mar 2018
Here's a fine example of a nicely detailed etymology
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22 Feb 2018
An article from @consciousstyles with AHD editor @SKleinedler
consciousstyleguide.com/cons…
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American Heritage retweeted
1 Feb 2018
New website launched by Dictionary Society of North America: dictionarysociety.com/
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American Heritage retweeted
25 Jan 2018
Our very own @SKleinedler, Executive Editor of the @ahdictionary, appeared on @FullFrontalSamB last night! x.com/FullFrontalSamB/status…
25 Jan 2018
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23 Jan 2018
The revised etymology of kurgan involves Russian, Old Russian, Cuman (a medieval Turkic language of Eastern Europe and Central Asia), Chagatai, Kazakh, and Old Turkic.
ahdictionary.com/word/search…
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23 Jan 2018
(The revisions and updates are being pushed to our app soon, too!)
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23 Jan 2018
Our most recent updates have been pushed to ahdictionary.com! More than 1,000 entries have been revised (including many expanded etymologies), and we've added 200 new words and senses. For specifics, read our blog post at ahdictionary.tumblr.com/post…
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