New words get into the dictionary every year.  If a word is used by many people in conversation and writing the word spreads.  Based on my recent new way of teaching, where I spend numerous hours doing something that a few months ago I had never even heard of,  Zooming, I have created a whole new use for this word rather than the basic to zoom.  If you don’t know what zooming is, well as I said, a few months ago either did I, so don’t feel bad.  Zooming is a virtual way of conducting a meeting, or in my case a classroom.  I set up the meeting on a computer, send invites, and we all join the meeting at the arranged time.  Once on, you and all attendees appear to be in little boxes on the screen, similar to what those of my generation refer to as being like, The Brady Bunch intro.

So to the editors at the Mirriam-Webster Dictionary,  I propose the following new words: