Fanboy Is Now a Real English Word, Says Merriam-Webster [Dictionary] — Yes, it's official: you now can be a fanboy by the power of Grayskull and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, which says the word is now part of the English language. They arrive a little late, because the Oxford English Dictionary in the Apple's Mac OS X Leopard running on my Apple iMac 24" shows it, and so does the dictionary on my Apple PowerBook 17"—running Apple's Mac OS X Tiger—and also the automatic orthography corrector in my Apple iPhone. The Merriam-Webster added other geek terms which are not in the Oxford, though: Netroots: the grassroots political activists who communicate via... [Tags: apple imac, apple iphone, apple powerbook, educational presentation, english word]