‘Fluffernutter,’ ‘wiener roast’: New dictionary food terms highlight pandemic eating.
But in the face of a lockdown where many people changed how they eat and how they dine, it's clear that experience has influenced our words and how we use them. “Words are added to the dictionary based on widespread use,” Peter Sokolowski, editor at large at Merriam-Webster, told TODAY in an email. “If a word is used in many publications and by many writers with the same meaning, it is added to the dictionary.
The"new" words are a mix of terms that have been around for a while, and some that are being looked at for the first time or in a new way. “As with all groups of newly added entries, some may seem familiar and some may seem very new — every term that enters the dictionary does so at its own pace,” said Sokolowski.
Many of us spent a lot of time baking in the past year. “For a term like baking chocolate, the limitless space of the online dictionary allows us to add compound terms that might have been determined to be self-evident in the past, in part to save precious space on the printed page,” said Sokolowski, who explained that pandemic-related terms were a bit different.
Here's hoping that next year's dictionary additions reflect a whole lot more dining out and trying new in-person experiences. For now, we're pretty happy to have air fryers and ghost kitchens.
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