BLUMENSTEIN, MB

Webster’s Dictionary has just announced a list of wacky new words for 2020 including “permaculture”, “freegan”, “awesomesauce”, and “mandatory”, and defines the latter as “like totally optional, whatever man.”

“We’re very pragmatic in our definitions. We like to see these words in action,” said Webster’s Dictionary editor Corny Reimer. “And when we looked at some of the large grocery stores in southern Manitoba, it became very clear to us that ‘mandatory’ doesn’t mean what people think it does.”

Webster’s sent representatives all over southern Manitoba and couldn’t find a single usage of the word “mandatory” that actually meant “mandatory.”

“Not in the traditional sense of the word,” said Reimer. “Instead, what we found was that nine times out of ten, stores just put up

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