“OH MY GAWWWDDDDD,” tweeted comics writer G. Willow Wilson today, at the announcement that Merriam-Webster had added “embiggen” to its dictionary of the English language, “I’m so floored even my ...

"Embiggens?" says teacher Edna Krabappel during the episode, "Lisa the Iconoclast." "I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield." "I don't know why," responds fellow teacher Elizabeth ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Merriam-Webster added the word "embiggen" to its pages on Monday, the dictionary giant announced, ...

The word is 'embiggen'... but who said it and how on earth has it made it into the dictionary 22 years later? MERRIAM-Webster raised a few eyebrows when it added a made up word from a 22-year-old ...

Ever since about 1996, grammatical sticklers are fought against the runaway freight train-esque popularity of “embiggen”—a perfectly cromulent word made famous by The Simpsons that was technically not ...

Pop culture plays a huge part in the process of transforming made up, nonsensical words into perfectly acceptable parts of the lexicon. Today, Merriam-Webster announced via Twitter that “embiggen”—a ...

Though the word has transcended its animated town origins, being regularly used by online outlets (“click to embiggen this map”) and superhero Kamala Khan in the Ms. Marvel comic book series, its ...

The Simpsons writers are uncannily good at predicting events that have happened years after poking fun at them, but who would've thought they'd set events in motion years ago that would lead to a word ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thankfully, AP News did some of that research and reported dozens of the new words. Food and drink slang like guac and marg are on ...