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7 January 2023

9:00 AM

7 January 2023

9:00 AM

The latest edition of The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (published by Merriam-Webster) has now appeared – and it contains 500 new words. Well, some of them are new, but some of them we have known for quite a while. Vape we have known for several years as the name of the activity of vaping instead of smoking (but every bit as dangerous).

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