This Week's Inquirer: Mar-a-Lago raid made ‘espionage’ the word of the moment

This buzzy word doesn't mean what you think it means.

A bunch of folks were annoyedly distressed when they went to their dictionaries this week — and not just because they learned the Oxford English Dictionary had newly added entries for folx (the world’s dumbest intentional misspelling) and annoyedly (which should have been there already).

After the FBI’s raid of Mar-a-Lago, lookups for espionage surged. But when dictionary fans got there, they were doubtlessly disappointed by Merriam-Webster’s definition: “the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company.”

Huh?

Until we get evidence that Donald Trump is an actual Russian spy, that definition doesn’t seem too applicable to what the Justice Department was searching for.

Read the full column at Inquirer.com.