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How can I see a list of of all the newly added words? The blog only lists ~30 of them? Does Merriam Webster use a form of Version-Control to track changes do t
by ghawk1ns 5y ago
How can I see a list of of all the newly added words? The blog only lists ~30 of them?
Does Merriam Webster use a form of Version-Control to track changes do their dictionary? It seems like versioning is a good use-case for a language information service.
I'd like to get the diff of how definitions and examples to words have changed over time, and perhaps why those changes were accepted.
- clairegiordano 5y agoI can't seem to find the complete list online either, I just tweeted at the @MerriamWebster account to find out, we'll see if they share a link. Does anybody else have it?
- banana_giraffe 5y agoIt's not too hard to scrape https://www.merriam-webster.com/browse/dictionary/a https://www.merriam-webster.com/browse/dictionary/a and friends, but sadly it appears the wayback machine doesn't have a recent crawl of all of the pages from one day, so comparing to a historical scrape is complicated.