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WTF? This is the kind of condescending language...

Comment by PlaySerious

Dictionaries are reactive to culture, in a chicken and egg hysteresis with a 20 year time lag under Merriam-Webster's official standards (absent some cases for faster inclusion or modification of listed words).

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Who likes stand up comedy? *grin*

Comment by pmcrimson

Merriam-Webster's tendency to define things with solely a synonym is actually a pet peeve of mine.

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While the words are related in some contexts, consider this excerpt from Merriam-Webster's entry from reason: "a consideration, motive, or judgment inducing or confirming a belief, influencing the will, or leading to an action or course of action : a rational ground or motive"You use reason to make

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Who likes stand up comedy? *grin*

Comment by Maverisms

I maintain that, especially given Merriam-Webster's definition, the meaning leans toward the performer's side.

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what i like about obama

Comment by Sun-ah

i went to look up the definition of racism in merriam webster's online dictionary and i lost my comment.

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Finding fellow atheists to date

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atheistical] n : someone who denies the existence of god  Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Atheist \A"the*ist\, n. ... merriam-webster.

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Why doesn't OKC automatically delete/freeze accounts where age < 18?

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Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share ThisMain Entry: pe·do·phil·iaPronunciation: "pEd-&-'fil-E-&, "ped-Variant: or chiefly British pae·do·phil·ia /"pEd-/Function: noun: sexual perversion in which children are the preferred sexual objectMerriam-Webster's

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what makes a religion the "correct" one?

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary1. ... com we have the definition from merriam-webster.

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PROMISCUOUS

Comment by tacit

It most certainly is; it's in the Oxford English Dictionary, the Merriam Webster dictionary, the Webster's New Millennium Dictionary.