The digital dictionary of the Academy of the Language includes from today new words and changes in the existing ones, although with a lower intensity. After two years with a very high number of modifications (3,345 in 2017, and 2,451 in 2018), the amount drops to 1,100 , including 229 additions, with expressions as consolidated as zasca, casoplon, arboricide, brunch or beatlemania.

The director of the Royal Academy of Language, Santiago Muñoz Machado , said that this update will add other annuals until the new edition of the dictionary, 24, in 2026. A work that may not be published on paper with its 100,000 entries, a format that the entity will make "exceptional" in front of a website now in modification to provide it with a content "virtually unattainable," said Muñoz Machado.

The new additions, announced in Seville within the XVI Congress of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, are smaller in part because the adaptation to a peer language has occurred for the most part. The definitions started with 'man who' already lived the change to 'person who', explained Paz Battaner, director of the dictionary.

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The new words of the dictionary give officiality to the spoken language. The technological field as usual incorporates a good group, such as router or messaging. But also curiosities appear as beatlemania , which exceptionally mixes two languages, without Castilianizing the foreign language.

Some novelties are arboricide (unjustified logging of trees), antitaurine, scheduling, homeopathy and osteopathy, or the muesli food. In sports, midfielder appears (as a game strategy). Also sieso, bordería and casoplón. Among the Americanisms stand out amá and apá, which come from that area, not from the Basque; and 'penthouse', in reference to the attic of a building; foreigners like brioche, brochure, 'annus horribilis' and a catalanismo, casteller.

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