Babywearing and fourth trimester also made it in the book.
Babywearing and fourth trimester — the 12-week period following the birth of a newborn — also now have a place in the iconic book.
What took so long? Dad bod has been floating around since 2003. According to Merriam-Webster’s editor-at-large, Peter Sokolowski, they need written evidence that a word or term has staying power. Being popular on TikTok isn’t going cut it. “If a word is used frequently in publications such as The New York Times or The Atlantic, then it goes into the dictionary,” Sokolowski told
. “We need to see it appear in carefully edited prose over a period of time— and not just in memes and on social media.”
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