Does The Merriam-Webster Dictionary Need Enforcers?
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary just added about 1,000 words to the dictionary. Seems like the dictionary is easier to get into than Natalie Portman’s snatch these days but that’s neither here nor there. The real story here is that after 100 years of the NHL and about a thousand years since hockey’s creation, the word “five-hole” has finally made it into the dictionary.
I think at this point everybody knows that I’m not the type of guy who is going to be running around trying to get people to love hockey just because I love hockey. There’s nothing that I hate more than the people who consistently feel the need to compare other sports to hockey just to show how strong and tough and more competitive and better looking and classy and more athletic hockey players are than other athletes. That’s just not what I do. You don’t like hockey? Fine by me.
But still. This is the 100th anniversary of the NHL. And those nerds over at Merriam-Webster are now just putting five-hole in their silly little book? Give me a fucking break (By the way, the movie is better than the book and that’s a fact). And not only did they JUST put five-hole in the dictionary, but it’s at the bottom 10% in terms of word popularity. That is outrageous to me and it should be outrageous to you as well. What other words could possibly be more popular? Gestural? Corrosion? Decadence? I don’t know, you tell me. The only thing I do know is that we need to get some enforcers over there at Merriam-Webster HQ to make sure that this type of disrespect never happens again.