"Embiggens?" says teacher Edna Krabappel during the episode, "Lisa the Iconoclast." "I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield." "I don't know why," responds fellow teacher Elizabeth ...

“OH MY GAWWWDDDDD,” tweeted comics writer G. Willow Wilson today, at the announcement that Merriam-Webster had added “embiggen” to its dictionary of the English language, “I’m so floored even my ...

The official dictionary is a partnership with Merriam-Webster, which updates their own dictionary every year. The Scrabble dictionary team hadn’t put together a refresher since 2018, leading to this ...

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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Merriam-Webster added some new words to the dictionary this week and when it came to explaining ...

The Simpsons episode “Lisa the Iconoclast” aired during season seven of the show that’s now been renewed for seasons 33 and 34, which will take it to (at least) an unbelievable 750 episodes. Almost ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Marvel Universe is always inspiring new things in the real world, and now thanks to Kamala ...

Pop culture plays a huge part in the process of transforming made up, nonsensical words into perfectly acceptable parts of the lexicon. Today, Merriam-Webster announced via Twitter that “embiggen”—a ...

This news embiggens my spirit. On Monday, Merriam-Webster, the most social media-savvy dictionary, announced that 850 words had been added to its online dictionary. One of those words is embiggen, ...