A handy guide to new dictionary definitions, 2017-style
You know that time of the year when they add new words to the Oxford English Dictionary? This isn’t one of them. It just feels like it.
A 2017 glossary:
"Alternative facts" = lies
"Re-accommodate" = forcibly drag off plane
"Holocaust centers" = concentration camps— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 11, 2017
Just in case you wanted to get into the full etymology – oooh! – of these things, here’s how we first came across Kellyanne Conway’s world of “alternative facts” back in January.
Here’s how Twitter reacted to the the United Airlines controversy, and of course that Sean Spicer madness in full.
2017 everyone!
