Sunday night's presidential debate, the second overall debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump this election season, and the action unfurled in a fast and furious manner.
SEE ALSO:This dictionary Twitter account had the best lexicographical burns of the debateAnd, lucky for America, Merriam-Webster and its lexicographers were, once again, live-tweeting the action and showing where the candidates and America were lacking in vocabulary skills.
Unfortunately, it was mostly America that needed fact-checking on words.
Aleppo or "a lepo"?
For instance, it seems America had a Gary Johnson moment.
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"Demagogic" vs "Demogorgon"
Other answers were more straight-forward, such as when Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump "demagogic."
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But this is the Internet and the Internet had some fun.
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"I have the best words"
There was also the issue of Trump's words (he has said before he has the best ones). Thankfully, Merriam-Webster was there to clear up one point of confusion.
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Word soup
As the dust settled from the contentious debate, the list of spiking searches showed what viewers had on their mind the most -- and the words they needed to double-check.
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But, in the end, the dictionary used Trump's own words to put a succinct point on, well, everything.
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