Posted on October 4, 2005 by Ronald London

The New Dictionary is Here . . . I'm SOMEBODY Now!

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Posted by Lance Koonce

The new Meriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary has been released, and included among the 100 or so new words now recognized by that dictionary are the following that may be of interest to P&SLB readers:

metadata (noun) 1983 : data that provides information about other data


DHS (abbreviation) : Department of Homeland Security

steganography (noun) 1985 1 archaic : cryptography 2 : the art or practice of concealing a message, image, or file within another message, image, or file

Wi-Fi (certification mark) て羽sed to certify the interoperability of wireless computer networking devices

And yet....no dictionary entries for blog, blawg, vlog, moblog, podcast, splog, phish, pharm, mmorpg, VoIP, wardriving, spit, spim, HIPAA, RFID....?

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