April 2007

New Word Watch

Merriam-Webster editors are giving the following words serious consideration for entry in a Merriam-Webster dictionary:

*  Bollywood noun [Bombay (Mumbai), traditional center of the Indian film industry + Hollywood] : the motion-picture industry in India

*  monetize verb (new sense) : to utilize (something of value) as a source of profit

*  sudoku noun [Japanese, short for suji wa dokushin ni kagiru "the numerals must remain single" (i.e., the digits can occur only once)] : a puzzle in which several numbers are to be filled into a 9 x 9 grid of squares so that every row, every column, and every 3 x 3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9

Do you have a suggestion for a word we should be watching for? E-mail us at comments@word.com, and we'll tell you what we have on that word so far.