NEW WORDS: The slew of new entries includes 160 new music and law terms, such as "cyberstalking," "identity fraud" and "hsaing-waing," which is a traditional Burmese musical ensemble mainly of drums and gongs.
FWIW, new words have been added to the dictionary.
The abbreviation that stands for "for what it's worth" is among 1,700 new entries that have been added recently to the Merriam-Webster Unabridged dictionary, according to Merriam-Webster spokeswoman Meghan Lunghi and the unabridged dictionary's website.
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