More than 10,000 new words!

[Dan Murphy]

That is how many new ones have been added to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition. Reissued every 10 years, many new ones have made it.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/books/06/30/new.dictionary.ap/

A former dot-commer working a McJob was listening to some headbangers while laying out the last of his dead presidents for longnecks and some less than heart-healthy Frankenfood.

 

[Dana49]

Looks like it may be time to cash in one of my Barnes and Noble gift certificates.

 

[Indyman]

A former dot-commer working a McJob was listening to some headbangers while laying out the last of his dead presidents for longnecks and some less than heart-healthy Frankenfood.

I actually understand most of this, but what is Frankenfood?

 

[Steve H.]

I think Frankenfood is slang for genetically altered food.

 

[Banzai]

Frankenfood- Genetically modified food

 

[helenabear]

Very cool!!! I might have to go get thise one

 

[Princess_Aurora]

ahh man...I have to get ANOTHER dictionary! I just bought 10th on CD ROM so I wouldn't have to carry the big book around with me.