Everyone is freaking out about President Trump, according to Merriam-Webster
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary's Twitter account, which has had quite an active election season between fact-checking America's vocabulary and tossing out burns, has come back with a more somber tone about the incoming Trump administration.
On Sunday night, the dictionary tweeted out a list of the top word lookups, just a few hours ahead of Trump's appearance on 60 Minutes, his first major interview since he defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
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That is an incredibly depressing list. Giving it extra heft is the blog post attached to the tweet, showing the spike in searches for the word "misogyny" in the wake of Trump's victory.
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Not to read too much into things, but a few other tweets from the dictionary in the days after the election hint at the feelings of some across the country.
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Of course, it all could just be a coincidence.
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Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
