Merriam-Webster

Is that a neologism? Has he invented a new word? No.

You know why it will never become a new word, despite how many hundreds or thousands of his sycophants start repeating it? Because unlike Google Maps, Merriam-Webster has integrity and will never, ever, ever allow that word in its dictionary.

At another rally in reddest of red, Youngstown, Ohio, Donald had this to say after a protester who interrupted the rally by calling out, release the Epstein files, which was also written on her t-shirt, got punched in the face by one of the thugs in the audience.

Quote, Wow, man, I love that.

All right, you got it.

Play Homicide from the Merriam-Webster Talking Dictionary.

Go ahead.

Homicide.

Did you coin that word? I think

Merriam-Webster might have, but I borrowed it.

Okay, okay.

So looking at sport for kids as a commodity.

And I'm Monte Belmonte.

Later in the show, word nerd Peter Sokolowski from Merriam-Webster in Springfield will help you increase your Scrabble score as we explore the new official Scrabble dictionary.

Also, a legend of documentary filmmaking is part of a benefit for the 40th anniversary of the Northampton Community Music Centre.

But first, NASA comes to Amherst.

The Louis Prima? The Louis Prima Telescope, bringing meatballs to space.

We'll be following the UMass-based Prima Telescope project until its hopeful launch in 2033.

Later in the show, surrogate word nerd Peter Sokolowski on Merriam-Webster's new official Scrabble dictionary.

But up next, we'll zoom in very slowly and deliberately on the Northampton Community Music Center because documentarian and legend Ken Burns is coming to town to celebrate their 40th anniversary.

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Merriam-Webster defines a leader as someone who directs another's way, a guide or conductor.

No disrespect to the folks at Merriam-Webster, but they've missed the mark.

A leader could direct others by way of office, title, position.

Certainly my guest today leads by virtue of formal position.

Your reader for today is Linda Rice.

We'll start today's reading with the Merriam-Webster Word of the Day.

The word of the day is grotesque, an adjective.

what it means.

I'm doing all the heavy lifting.

According to Merriam Webster, the informal slang expression means a blank look given by members of Generation Z in circumstances in which an oral response would normally be expected.

The expression has quickly gained popularity online and is commonly used in conversations about workplace or customer service culture.

Stare essentially is a rejection of performative happiness.

All right, so there's that.

On top of the fact she couldn't define what socialism was, the difference between socialism and communism, which, by the way, I do have brought to you by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, that socialism is an egalitarian economic and political theory or movement advocating for the collective or government ownership of things.

Also, a society or group of living in which there is no private property.

It's a system of condition of society, which that means the means of production are owned and controlled by the state.

First off, whenever dealing with concepts and speaking to them, it's good to define what you mean by those concepts before engaging in your argument.

So to start, I've pulled open the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and I'm gonna read out the definition for realism.

And there's kind of two of them that I'd like to speak to.

But first, I'm going to go with the initial definition.