Dictionary.com adds 'supposably' and 'finna' among new words for 2021

KHOU ^ | 3/15/21 | Andrew Weil

[AT7Saluki]

Among the 600 new words and definitions are "supposably" and "finna." When Dictionary.com tweeted out some of the new words, those two additions racked up thousands more quote-tweets than any of the other words.

Dictionary.com says the adverb "supposably" means "as may be assumed, imagined, or supposed." It describes "finna" as "a phonetic spelling representing the African American Vernacular English variant of fixing to."

[AT7Saluki]

Dumbing America down.

[lightman]

Ebonics: The national language of BIDENISTAN OBAMASTAN

[Artcore]

Liberals are telling Black Americans, “we think you’re just plain stupid; let us dump this down for you.”

[fruser1]

What does the white dictionary, Webster’s, say?

[Artcore]

*dump = dumb

[frogjerk]

Somewhere phony Scrabble champions are being made.

[eyeamok]

Do you mean “supposedly” ??

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I want to axe you a question...

[READINABLUESTATE]

The kids in my hood (30 somethings) have been using finna for years now. I ridicule them at every turn when I hear it.

Replace every “G” with an “F”.

[Dead Corpse]

Alright... Pull this planet over... I want OFF right NOW.

[chajin]

It describes "finna" as "a phonetic spelling representing the African American Vernacular English variant of fixing to."

Actually Jamaican patois, which is its own dialect; whether that filtered through to "native" African-Americans through Jamaican immigration or not, I don't know.

[EnquiringMind]

SUPPOSABLY??? Is the definition in dictionary.com “how to sound like a dumbass when trying to say supposedly”?

[right way right]

Lettuce going down to the lieberry and see.

[NohSpinZone]

What the heck is “finna” anyway?

[I want the USA back]

By destroying the English language they hope to destroy the culture, then the country.

[Turbo Pig]

*dump = dumb

And here we were thinking your were being clever ;-)

[lizma2]

When I was younger I always said supposebly. I didn’t stop until my kid’s started to tease me about it.

I’m white, grew up in a white town, but I was born at the same hospital as Michael Jackson!

[jughandle]

Next year we’ll see “amberlamps”.

[ClearCase_guy]

SUPPOSABLY???

An ignorant mis-pronounciation or mis-spelling has become an official word.

What's next?
teh?
pron?

[BykrBayb]

AT7Saluki, supposably E. Pluribus Unum finna axe you a queshin. Ima watch, an prolly lmao.