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Access all of the American Heritage Dictionary at https://t.co/eweANLEdfg. The AHD is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (https://t.co/2XApSo6nR4).
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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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@EditorMark Of course, wouldn't it be nice to own a print copy of the most recent printing of the American Heritage Dictionary? It just came out last week!
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Four in my bookcase. One online through a university library. One on an app. And @ahdictionary is free at ahdictionary.com.
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'Grammar books that prove what they preach': our latest readerlist is from @lanegreene, language columnist at @TheEconomist and author of the brilliant 'Talk on the Wild Side': fivebooks.com/reader-list/th… Books by @sapinker @BryanAGarner @OED
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Thank you, @lanegreene !
Lane Greene@lanegreene
Britain and Europe, TALK ON THE WILD SIDE is now out. Huge thanks to @ProfileBooks. If you love language, please check it out. If you know people who do, spread the word. If you read it, please rate and review. And if you love or hate it, let me know why. amazon.co.uk/Talk-Wild-Side…
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•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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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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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
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@BCDreyer @PeterSokolowski @MerriamWebster What @BCDreyer said. Own a hard copy but usually use online version. And if I don't like the answer there, or can't find it, I hit @ahdictionary online. Love Am Heritage's usage polls.
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"Gut" – by @KoryStamper in the latest edition of “The Woolfer” thewoolfer.com/2018/09/07/woo… #woolferwords #women #feminism #equality #wwvwd
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@EditorMark @APStylebook Interestingly, we've shown it solid since A1 in 1969. (Possibly the citations in the Brown concordance in the 60s favored the solid form.) We'll look into adding the hyphenated form at least as a variant. Thanks for the tip!
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CORRECTION: I misread. Webster's New World went from "tossup" to "toss-up" in 2015, so that's what @APStylebook does. Only @ahdictionary makes it closed.
Editor Mark (@[email protected])@EditorMark
An election can be a tossup in @APStylebook (per a 2014 change in its preferred dictionary), but it's still hyphenated in @ChicagoManual, based on @MerriamWebster. @OxfordWords hyphenates; @ahdictionary closes it.
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@keithwinstein This correction has been made to the website. Thank you for bringing it to our attention!
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@keithwinstein Very good catch; thank you! We will re-record the pronunciation for the next update. (We have a way of tracking this, but this word fell through the cracks.)
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.@ahdictionary The pronunciation and audio sample on "quinoa" (ahdictionary.com/word/search.ht…) seem to be out of sync after your 1/2018 update. (I think the update removed the 3-syllable pronunciation, which had been first? BTW would be great to be able to see the changes over time!)
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@stusheehan @barrymccarty @MerriamWebster @BryanAGarner From a politeness perspective, you probably should only correct others if they're receptive to being corrected and they've asked you to do so, if you're their elocution teacher, or if you're their employer and they do public speaking for your company.
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@barrymccarty @MerriamWebster @ahdictionary @BryanAGarner I am 57 and still discovering words I mispronounce. And, I hear others mispronounce words as well. What are your thoughts concerning when and how to offer correction?
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Never stop learning. Recently I noticed that my accustomed pronunciation of "adjective" doesn't sound the "c." @MerriamWebster, says that's fine: "ˈa-jik-tiv also ˈa-jə-tiv."But @ahdictionary allows only "ăj' ĭk-tĭv," which our friend @BryanAGarner also prefers. Point well taken.
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The etymology of quetzal can be traced back to Proto-Uto-Aztecan.
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@EditorMark @OxfordWords Our main form is without the hyphen, but we do show the hyphenated form as an equal variant.
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