'Words offer a window into our ever-changing language and culture,' says Merriam-Webster's editor Peter Sokolowsk

Update made after Germany's Jewish community rejects claim that 'Jude' may be discriminatory due to 'the memory' of word's deployment in Holocaust

After losing their father Neil to COVID-19 last year, his children are on a mission to commemorate him by having a term he coined officially added to the English lexicon

In first, Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com make same selection, whose web searches were over 1,000% higher than usual for months after stratospheric spike on March 11

National Library archivist says correspondence between James Murray and Claude Montefiore about absence of term from lexicon highlights British Jews' concern about discrimination

Among terms added to latest edition of the OED are a number of Yiddish words, derogatory phrases for Jews such as 'bagel' and 'yiddo,' which fans of English soccer club go by