Merriam-Webster is such an of-the-moment publication that it’s added terms like “gender-nonconforming,” “snowflake” and “bottle episode” to its arsenal lately, plus identified “they” as the word of 2019. As its editors say, “The English language never sleeps.”
So why has it continued to single out monosodium glutamate in Chinese food, under the heading “Chinese restaurant syndrome,” …