The Merriam-Webster dictionary had to delete replies to its popular post and then remove the post altogether.
What is the highly controversial word that commenters kept referencing and that Merriam-Webster couldn’t tolerate?
Americans know the answer but how about everybody else?
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I have not followed this drama so let me guess. Woman?
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Yes. Woman is the controversial, scandalous word that had to be deleted.
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Wait are you serious or are you joking. After the last 4 years its quite difficult to tell what is fact from what is fiction.
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“are you serious or are you joking”
That’s what happened….
And then they got pissy about the push back…. (and is it just me or is his pronunciation of ‘boudoir’…. offf? I’ve always accented the first syllable and might even drop the last ‘r’ (since it’s from French though I have no idea if it’s dropped in that language. Stressing the last syllable just sounds… ugly and awkward to me.
https://x.com/MerriamWebster/status/1814306798892945702
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No, it’s true. People started posting that a woman is a adult human female, and that’s apparently not allowed.
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Yeah, and note how the man/male equivalent is never the issue.
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Never. It’s like we are going in circles with the gender stereotypes, with the endless intrusion of men into everything female.
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Freud would have a field day with this.
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is it “they”?
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