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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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Check out the kompromat etymology:
A screenshot of the etymology of the word "kompromat" in the American Heritage Dictionary.

ALT A screenshot of the etymology of the word "kompromat" in the American Heritage Dictionary.

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Thank you, @lanegreene !
Lane Greene@lanegreene20 Sep 2018
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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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
Cover of the 2018 printing of the American Heritage Dictionary, with "50 Years of Excellence" sticker

ALT Cover of the 2018 printing of the American Heritage Dictionary, with "50 Years of Excellence" sticker

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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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•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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American Heritage retweeted
The Woolfer@The_Woolfer15 Sep 2018
"Gut" – by @KoryStamper in the latest edition of “The Woolfer” thewoolfer.com/2018/09/07/wo… #woolferwords #women #feminism #equality #wwvwd
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The etymology of quetzal can be traced back to Proto-Uto-Aztecan.
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American Heritage retweeted
Kory and Steve@FiatLexPodcast3 Apr 2018
Researching on the fly to bring YOU the best dictionary-related podcast that money cannot buy (because it's free)! Coming soon.
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Here's a fine example of a nicely detailed etymology
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An article from @consciousstyles with AHD editor @SKleinedler consciousstyleguide.com/cons…
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A post about reduplication: ahdictionary.tumblr.com/post…
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New website launched by Dictionary Society of North America: dictionarysociety.com/
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American Heritage retweeted
Mariner Books@MarinerBooks25 Jan 2018
Our very own @SKleinedler, Executive Editor of the @ahdictionary, appeared on @FullFrontalSamB last night! xitter.cf/FullFrontalSamB/status…
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The revised etymology of kurgan involves Russian, Old Russian, Cuman (a medieval Turkic language of Eastern Europe and Central Asia), Chagatai, Kazakh, and Old Turkic. ahdictionary.com/word/search…
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(The revisions and updates are being pushed to our app soon, too!)
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Our most recent updates have been pushed to ahdictionary.com! More than 1,000 entries have been revised (including many expanded etymologies), and we've added 200 new words and senses. For specifics, read our blog post at ahdictionary.tumblr.com/post…
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Here's another blog post about functional shift! ahdictionary.tumblr.com/post…
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All about the etymology of latke: ahdictionary.tumblr.com/post…
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