As the police-custody death in the spring of 2020 of a Black man named George Floyd sparked a national reckoning over police brutality, the American dictionary Merriam-Webster also reconsidered its ...
NEW YORK — The American reference dictionary Merriam-Webster will change its definition of the word racism at the suggestion of a young black woman, who wanted it to better reflect the oppression of ...
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Can the Dictionary Keep Up?

Books & the Arts / In Stefan Fatsis’s capacious, and at times score-settling, personal history of the reference book, he ...