The reader who chided me (tongue-in-cheek) for using the word “derivated,” wrote in again to report:
“about 55,700” results you find when typing “derivated” into google! 🙂 Great Stuff! [see for yourself]
I haven’t checked, but I don’t think “derivated” made the new edition of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. However, the M-W lexiographers have green-lighted a bunch of new entries — “Chick Flick,” “Civil Union,” “Bikini Wax” and “Brain Freeze” are now official dictionary entries. (Hmmm, is green light a verb?) Read about the new words here, or jump straight to A Sampling of New Words and Senses on the Merriam-Webster web site.