{"id":18731,"date":"2026-06-03T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18731"},"modified":"2026-05-27T00:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:20:41","slug":"new-print-edition-of-merriam-webster-collegiate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2026\/06\/03\/new-print-edition-of-merriam-webster-collegiate\/","title":{"rendered":"New print edition of Merriam-Webster Collegiate!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2025\/11\/18\/merriam-webster-new-collegiate-dictionary\">Merriam-Webster goes old school with first new hardcover Collegiate dictionary in 22 years<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201c\u2018The Collegiate is also kind of an American institution. It\u2019s the best selling book after the Bible.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>This new edition includes about 5,000 words that weren\u2019t in the previous print edition.<\/p>\r\n<p>(Article from November, 2025.)<\/p>\r\n<p>I was tempted to buy the new one, just on general principles. But in fact, I use the online version all the time, and I don\u2019t remember the last time I opened my copy of the previous print edition.<\/p>\r\n<p>So I think I\u2019m gonna skip this new one. But I\u2019m pleased that it exists.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictionaries"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18732,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18731\/revisions\/18732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}