Merriam-Webster saw the potential in Wikipedia’s interactive model and launched its own user-contributed “Open Dictionary,” where visitors can submit entries that aren’t already in the company’s online dictionary, such as “frindle” (said to be another word for a pen) and “manky” (said to mean bad, inferior).
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Merriam-Webster saw the potential in Wikipedia’s interactive model and launched its own user-contributed “Open Dictionary,” where visitors can submit entries that aren’t already in the company’s online dictionary, such as “frindle” (said to be another word for a pen) and “manky” (said to mean bad, inferior).