"Strange New Words"

Science Officer's log, supplemental:

I have completed my analysis of the data collected by our first probe from temporal-spatial anomaly ALPHA. Radiation emitted by the anomaly seems to have corrupted the bio-neural gel packs inside our library computer, causing the formation of a non-Newtonian fluid that is corrupting the memory core.

Fortunately, only one specific data segment seems to be affected: a module containing words first recorded by the Merriam-Webster dictionary in Old Earth calendar year 1973. I should be able to manually reconstruct this data...