“Crowdfunding.” “Gamification.” “Hashtag.” “Social networking.” “Tweep.” Check out a sampling of more than 150 new words added to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary in 2014.
Merriam-Webster showcased many of these new words as “Word of the Day” during June.
The new additions, according to Merriam-Webster, “reflect the growing influence technology is having on human endeavor, especially social networking, once done mostly in person.”
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