Animal cracker. Chain of command. Greeting card. The very first Collegiate Dictionary was published, that jargon was as fresh as Internet and E-mail are today.

Each year, Merriam-Webster publishes a new copyright of the Collegiate Dictionary that includes the newest words and meanings that have become established in our language. Our editors constantly monitor language trends reflected in the pages of newspapers and magazines, on radio and television, and on the Internet, so that when language changes happen, we know about them - and so do buyers of our dictionaries.

Which words made our annual dictionary update this year? Cyber-, mosh, and newsgroup, to name just a few!