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Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary hit shelves this November, words that were once defined in basements, at the bar stool or on Urban Dictionary’s back pages got the official legacy lexicographical ...

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Jawn has officially made the history books, as the all-purpose Philadelphia slang was added to a leading online dictionary this week. Dictionary.com entered jawn into its lexicon on Wednesday, as part ...

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