This is an acorn. It is not an eggcorn.

Okay, you’ll probably believe it when I tell you they added clickbait.

Merriam-Webster noted this week on their blog Unabridged, that they’ve added 1,700 new entries to the dictionary.

It’s happened again: this dictionary has gotten bigger.

As of last week, it’s grown by more than 1,700 entries, and existing entries have expanded by more than 700 new senses. We’ve added 3,200 examples that provide contextual information, and another 200 entries for some of the words people most frequently look up have been updated and enhanced.

Some of the new entries are for terms you’ve heard of and some likely aren’t. We thought we’d offer you a sampling of both.

You’ve probably heard of the colossal squid (an extremely large squid) but maybe you don’t know about colony collapse disorder (a disorder of honeybees). You know what an emoji is, and a meme, but do you know vocal fry? (You know it when you hear it, and if you haven’t then you’re lucky.)

Jeggings may not be NSFW but they’re definitely a WTF. Dark money, net neutrality, and the sharing economy are all timely topics, but it’s hard to know why palliative care and macaron just made it in. My favorite word might be eggcorn, “a word or phrase that sounds like and is mistakenly used in a seemingly logical or plausible way for another word or phrase either on its own or as part of a set expression.” Eggcorn, of course, is an eggcorn of acorn. So for all intensive purposes, all of you dough-eyed naifs should be internally grateful that you have Merriam-Webster around to protect your linguistic reputation and keep you from being a social leopard.