In the modern era, when up is down and left is right, when everything George Orwell predicted has come true, of course we’re redefining words to mean whatever the woke leftists want them to mean.

The Cambridge Dictionary is the latest, having decided to redefine the words “man” and “woman.”

A woman is now “an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.” And of course a man is “an adult who lives and identifies as male though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.”

Social media, as one could predict, exploded.

“Cambridge Dictionary decided it’s no longer aligned with reality,” one user wrote.

Cambridge Dictionary decided it's no longer aligned with reality.

— just another George. (@Raku________) December 12, 2022

“Shame on Cambridge Dictionary. Identifying as a woman does not make someone a woman,” wrote another.

Shame on Cambridge Dictionary. Identifying as a woman does not make someone a woman.

— Adrienne (@TexMomACN) December 12, 2022

And one mocked the very definition of the famed lexicographer.

“A book that lives and identifies as a dictionary though it may have been said to have a different genre when written.”

a book that lives and identifies as a dictionary though it may have been said to have a different genre when written

— ideology enjoyer (@autistic_campus) December 12, 2022

A Cambridge Dictionary spokesman told the Daily Mail that the definitions were added in October.

“They carefully studied usage patterns of the word ‘woman’ and concluded that this definition is one that learners of English should be aware of to support their understanding of how the language is used,” a statement read. “The first definition at the entry for ‘woman’ remains unchanged and continues to be ‘an adult female human being.’”

Free Speech Union founder Toby Young told the Mail that the dictionary is going down a “slippery slope.”

“It’s disappointing to see identity politics creeping into the way a dictionary defines words,” he said. “The claim that these supplementary definitions of “woman” and “man” are based on “carefully studied usage patterns” doesn’t seem plausible. Who, apart from a few woke activists, define ‘woman’ and ‘man’ this way?”

Meanwhile, Dictionary.com on Tuesday announced that “woman” is the 2022 Word of the Year after searches for the word soared by more than 1,400%.

The website, the top online English-language educational dictionary, defines “woman” as “an adult female person.”

“This year, the very matter of the definition of the word ‘woman’ was at the center of so many consequential moments, discussions, and decisions in our society,” John Kelly, senior director of editorial at Dictionary.com, said in a statement.

“Our selection of ‘woman’ as the Word of the Year for 2022—and how the word is defined, who is included in that definition, who the word applies and belongs to—highlights how important the work of a dictionary is, and how dictionaries can impact people’s lives,” he said.

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Scientists were able to hear an exciting sound from another planet and release the audio for the public to experience on Tuesday. 

It is the first time earthlings have heard the swirling columns of wind and dust known as Martian dust devils, which coincidentally traveled directly above the NASA Perseverance rover and sprayed the device with dust. The rover happened to have its microphone turned on when the dust phenomenon passed above it. 

The noise sounds like wind hitting the microphone, and pieces of dust can also be heard striking the device. The audio is not particularly loud because of the thin atmosphere on Mars, although it sounds similar to dust devils that appear on planet Earth. 

The recording took place last year, according to Naomi Murdoch of the University of Toulouse, the lead author of the study in Nature Communications.

“As the dust devil passed over Perseverance we could actually hear individual impacts of grains on the rover,” Murdoch said. “We could actually count them.”

The recordings are captured just eight times each month, and the microphone on the rover records for less than three minutes. However, the scientists try to plan the video and audio recordings to coincide with times the dust devils are likely to happen.

Murdoch said it was “definitely luck” that the dust devil appeared at the same time the microphones were live on September 27, 2021.

“It was fully caught red-handed by Persy,” co-author German Martinez of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston said. 

The rover collected data on the dust devil in multiple ways. 

In the Nature publication, researchers describe the dust devils as “convective vortices loaded with dust” and are “common at the surface of Mars, particularly at Jezero crater, the landing site of the Perseverance rover.”

The scientists noted that increasing the knowledge about “dust lifting and atmospheric transport” is vital to simulate the dust pattern correctly and to be able to predict dust storms. It is also important “for future space exploration as grain impacts are implicated in the degradation of hardware on the surface of Mars.”

Images of Martian dust devils have been captured for many years, but the sounds they make had never been heard before this recording. The dust devil captured was almost 400 feet tall, around 80 feet wide, and moving at 16 feet per second, which is typical. 

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