Even with its nose-bleed stock prices, billionaire whiz-kids and a general Internet take-over, Google hadn’t really arrived – until now.
Google or, rather, “google” is one of 100 or so new words to take their place in the latest edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.
The search engine giant has entered the pantheon of trade-names-that-became verbs, as it will be lower-cased as a verb in the dictionary.
Writes The Boston Globe: “Respectful of the trademark, Merriam-Webster has lowercased the entry but maintains the capitalization while explaining that the verb means ‘to use the Google search engine. to retrieve online information.
“We’re defining a trademark as a verb, just like we did with the word xerox,” said dictionary President John Morse.
Other new entries include himbo, soul patch, drama queen, bling and mouse potato.
More here.
Via The Boston Globe
