Merriam-Webster’s Twitter is a gem.

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Morphing7716@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 3y (3 replies)

North, East, West, South ?

SomeoneElse@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Never eat wheat shredded, obviously.

Wreckronomicon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y

Naughty Elephants Water Squirt

rockSlayer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

My favorite cereal, I love NEWSOs

Hotdogman@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Look, I don't know who you are, Webster. I have done my own online research using a dictionary and that is what it means. Do you even know what a dictionary is?

Rhin0@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Fucking Webster chugging beers on his porch in Atlanta thinks he knows it all, what an asshole.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y

What would Merriam-Webster know about words?!

Ultraviolet@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y (3 replies)

With very, very few exceptions (mostly technology related), if someone claims the etymology of a common word is an acronym, they're full of shit.

DNAmaster10@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 3y

Shit - swimming, healing, integration, teamwork

julianh@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

SCUBA and RADAR are the only ones I know of.

kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2y

Laser too

Stelus42@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

New (plural)??

Hextic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Sup, what's new?

Oh shit..

Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

I believe this is the answer.

The news are the new things. New stories, events.

Like the olds would be yesterdays news

wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

I mean, it doesn't, literally speaking. But that does make a pretty good acronym for it, tbh.