Dictionary.com

Um, you can say octopuses or octopi.

Either are acceptable according to dictionary.com.

Which is fine, but if you haven't seen...

We just did the trailer.

And dictionary.com just added thousands of new words.

They added 1,400 new words.

Dictionary.com added 5,900 words.

Here are some of the new words.

One is parasocial, one-sided emotional bond with a public figure.

I don't know.

But I guess, how do you have...

Dictionary.com's list includes goaded, reply guy, Kiki, that's a gossip gallery originating in the 1980s.

I'm Mignon Fogarty.

And today I am here with Steve Johnson, a lexicographer at Dictionary.com. Steve, welcome to the Grammar Girl podcast.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah.

Tell us a little bit about your role at Dictionary.com and why you're here today, because I hear you have like this big word drop.

Yeah, so I'm the director of lexicography for dictionary.com.

So I pretty much kind of run the strategy of which words get added to the dictionary.

Now, as for that term siwash that the wild person used when it spoke to Charlie, I found a few different definitions.

The one from dictionary.com, which is the one that I'm going to trust the most here, says that it has two essential meanings, one of which is a disparaging term for an indigenous American person.

And from what I was seeing,

the term...

Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ.

Dictionary.com did not just add 6,000 new words this year.

They also added some new acronyms.

You're going to know this one.

I never heard, it's always the squeaky wheel gets the oil.

And that's even in the dictionary.com. Yeah.

Both are acceptable.

If you look it up, Merriam-Webster says the squeaky wheel gets the grease slash oil.