With an actual chill in the air, I can finally say it's autumn, which is one of my favorite times of year, and not just because of the leaves turning and it being cold enough to start making cocoa and soup.
This time of year is Halloween, Christmas, and birthdays all in one for word nerds like me. We're getting really close to the time when major dictionaries choose their words of the year, and Lake Superior State University publishes its list of words to be banished from the English language.
But oh ... it's also when dictionary sites announce words added to the online versions of their dictionaries for the quarter. It makes me giddy just thinking about it.
And why not, when Merriam-Webster finally added "cromulent," meaning acceptable or satisfactory, and dating to the 1996 "Lisa the Iconoclast" episode of "The Simpsons."
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