It isn’t every day that key cryptozoological terms get added to one of the world’s most famous dictionaries. However, Merriam-Webster made history yesterday after it added the term “Cryptid” to its online source for English language definitions.
The term, according to Merriam-Webster Online, has been in use since 1983, for which they give the following definition:
“an animal (such as Sasquatch or the Loch Ness Monster) that has been claimed to exist but never proven to exist”
The word was among more than 600 new terms added to the online dictionary, which Merriam-Webster announced on it’s Twitter account on Tuesday.
After years of searching for and collecting evidence, we put ‘cryptid’ in the dictionary. https://t.co/5pILJr0gHr pic.twitter.com/xmhfZaukgt
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) April 23, 2019
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Crypto Language: Merriam-Webster Adds “Cryptid” To Its Online Dictionary