Americans are taking note of President Trump’s habit of muddling words on his Twitter feed. Trump’s homophone mix-ups — using “council” instead of “counsel” or “heel” instead of “heal” — have also sent searches spiking. Dictionaries are often used to settle debates.”Lexicographers say that kind of fact-checking is just one of the many unpresidented, err … unprecedented ways that Trump’s presidency has boosted usage of dictionaries. [ President Trump cries ‘fake news’ and the world follows ]Former CIA director @JohnBrennan is responsible for 3 of the biggest jumps in searches on https://t.co/EoMLt7nGp1 last week. #WordsOfTheWeek https://t.co/9XSuyVf0fm — Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) March 25, 2018Lauren Sliter, a spokeswoman for Dictionary.com, said she felt that Trump’s errors, however trivial they seemed, probably did have an effect on the national discourse.

Source: Washington Post March 27, 2018 11:02 UTC