Merriam Webster adds "4th trimester" to dictionary; Babies are "fetuses outside the womb"

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

"So, the first three months post-birth –the Fourth Trimester – you should think of babies as fetuses outside the womb."
https://www.happiestbaby.com/blogs/b...urth-trimester



"Among the new additions: Oobleck, air fryer, whataboutism, FTW, and fourth trimester."
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word...the-dictionary

[acptulsa]

"So, the first three months post-birth –the Fourth Trimester – you should think of babies as fetuses outside the womb."
https://www.happiestbaby.com/blogs/b...urth-trimester



"Among the new additions: air fryer, whataboutism, fourth trimester."
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word...the-dictionary

Coming in the next edition: oxymirriamonic

[Snowball]

If you're a serious student of the language, always buy/use (for American dictionaries), the Webster's, never the Merriam-Webster's.
There is a difference. Pre-1982.

[Anti Federalist]

"unfulfilled abortion"

[tod evans]

Well if the mother gets three trimesters to kill their baby without repercussion then this must be the fathers chance to be free from the burdens of parenthood without repercussion.

Right?

Right?

Whaddayoumean the father has no rights?

[Pauls' Revere]

"unfulfilled abortion"

Only the living ones?

[Pauls' Revere]

No wonder the outside world looks at the USA as though its lost its mind.

[ClaytonB]

They should add "fourth phase" to the dictionary:

Phase 1: Put my mask on
Phase 2: Wear my mask
Phase 3: Take my mask off
Phase 4: I am considered "masked" while outside of my mask