Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

Merriam-Webster is giving its dictionary another “glow-up,” adding 1,400 words and definitions.

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