From the Nov. 4, 2011, Chicago Tribune by Heidi Stevens.
The new American Heritage Dictionary is out and they have added 10,000 entries after eight full-time editors, several dozen expert consultants and 200 usage experts worked roughly eleven years.
One new word is uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (let's see spell check do that one). Another is cargo pants. Also, hoodie for you fashionistas.
Also, Sphagettification: the extreme elongation or stretching of an object by tidal forces as it falls toward an extremely massive and compact astronomical body, such as a black star or neutron star. OK.
Others?
babydaddy
manboob
tramp stamp
Flexitarian-- One who normally maintains a vegetarian diet but occasionally makes exceptions and eats meat or fish.
Some definitions have been altered, like marriage which now is the legal union of a man and a woman as husband and wife and in some jurisdictions, between two persons of the same sex, usually entailing legal obligations of each person to the other.
There will be a sixth edition, but in what form it is not yet known. The fifth is in a printed form.
By the way, that word earlier, Spellcheck has no suggestions. Cowards.
A Word Is a Word is a Word. --Cooter
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