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Merriam-Webster has announced that “justice” is the 2018 word of the year. The word was the top lookup on the site over the last 12 months.

Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year is feminism after events like the Women’s March on Washington, D.C., Kellyanne Conway’s comments about feminism and the Harvey Weinstein controversy saw a spike in lookups of the word over 2017.

Kory Stamper is the woman behind the Merriam-Webster Twitter feed; she talks Covfefe and more

The expanded definition of the word comes with a goal of being more inclusive of people with non-binary gender identities.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary divides the internet by declaring the hot dog is a sandwich in a weekend tweet to celebrate Memorial Day.

Trans writer Niko Stratis talks to Global News about the importance of non-binary pronouns like “they” after that word was chosen by Merriam-Webster as its word of the year.

Editors at Merriam Webster added 500 new words to the dictionary. As Reggie Cecchini explains, it’s allowing modern vocabulary to take its place among classical language.

Just because something is common usage, does that mean it should be in the dictionary? Merriam-Webster recently added the word “irregardless,” so University of Alberta linguistics professor Dr. Herb Colston joined Global News at Noon to discuss it.