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by ghawk1ns 1698 days ago
How can I see a list of of all the newly added words? The blog only lists ~30 of them?

Does Merriam Webster use a form of Version-Control to track changes do their dictionary? It seems like versioning is a good use-case for a language information service.

I'd like to get the diff of how definitions and examples to words have changed over time, and perhaps why those changes were accepted.

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I can't seem to find the complete list online either, I just tweeted at the @MerriamWebster account to find out, we'll see if they share a link. Does anybody else have it?
It's not too hard to scrape https://www.merriam-webster.com/browse/dictionary/a and friends, but sadly it appears the wayback machine doesn't have a recent crawl of all of the pages from one day, so comparing to a historical scrape is complicated.