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Pull up a chair, because Merriam-Webster is about to demonstrate yet another lesson in the art of throwing shade. After correcting grammatical errors from both Betsy DeVos [1] and Donald Trump [2], the dictionary took to Twitter yet again to mock the White House's recent repeated misspelling of "attacker."
On Feb. 6, the White House released a list of 78 terror attacks [3] as an attempt to criticize the media for allegedly underreporting them. In the list, the White House misspelled the word "attacker" 27 times [4] to read "attaker."
In response, Merriam-Webster retweeted a picture of the obvious spelling error [5]. It didn't end there: after someone asked the dictionary to define "attaker," Merriam-Webster unleashed some low-key shade [6] in a tweet, shown below.
Reminder that our app has voice search, so you can look a word up even if you're not sure how it's spelled. https://t.co/gAH5JjwU32 [7] https://t.co/oyxk2zwpWO [8]
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) February 7, 2017 [9]
Well-played, Merriam-Webster, well-played.