Kory Stamper, a lexicographer for Merriam-Webster and author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, told us what criteria a word needs to meet in order to be added to the dictionary. Following is a transcript of the video.

In order to enter a word in the dictionary it needs to meet three criteria.

My name is Kory Stamper. I am a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster. A lexicographer is a person who writes and edits dictionaries.

The first criterion is it needs to have widespread use. So it has to have use an all read more >>>