‘Gaslighting’ named 2022 Word of the Year by Merriam-Webster Monday, November 28 by ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Merriam-Webster defines gaslighting as "the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one's own advantage."Now, the term has been dubbed the 2022 Word of the Year, the oldest U.S. dictionary publisher announced Monday."The increase in dictionary lookups for gaslighting... Read More.
Man who sent bomb and mass shooting threats to Merriam-Webster over gender-inclusive entries pleads guilty Saturday, September 17 by ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A disgruntled man upset about Merriam-Webster dictionary’s update to their definitions of gender pronouns and adjectives to make them more fluid has pleaded guilty in a federal court to making bomb threats and for threatening to kill the company’s employees in a... Read More.
Man arrested for allegedly threatening Merriam-Webster over definition of female Saturday, April 23 by ABC News(NEW YORK) — A California man was arrested this week for allegedly threatening to bomb Merriam-Webster's offices and kill its employees over the dictionary publisher's definitions for women, federal prosecutors said.Jeremy David Hanson, 34, of Rossmoor, California, was charged on April 20 with one... Read More.