These Tweets About Kids Renaming Everyday Things Prove They Should Be In Charge Of The Dictionary

What Are Slippers Then?

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The term “hand socks” totally make sense until you realize that it leaves you without a word for slippers. Would slippers also be socks? Or would they be hand socks for your feet?

These are the types of debates I imagine that Merriam-Webster Dictionary has to have each day.