
It’s not really yes or no, it’s more like let’s wait another year. So we watch those words, and basically the most senior editors will make a call. “There’s no committee, there’s no advocacy, there are no meetings. “If a word has met those three criteria, it goes in,” Sokolowski continued.

That means of the people using this term, do they use it the same way or to mean the same thing?” One, is it used by many people in many places? Two, is it being used consistently and increasingly? In other words, long term use. That’s the thing: We want to see the word fit three criteria.

“It’ll go in the database, and we’ll basically keep noticing it. “We will watch a term like this for a while,” Sokolowski explained.
