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These Are The New Words In The Oxford English Dictionary

O Scholars of the English Oxford Dictionary, thank ye for blessing the words sexting and retweet and jeggings and mankini and cyberbullying on thy sacred book’s pages, for now we would be able to feast upon them freely and properly.

In case you don’t know the meaning of those words:

• Retweet: Sharing a Twitter message.
• Sexting: Flirting by sending saucy phone text messages.
• Cyberbullying: the use of information technology to bully a person by sending or posting text or images of an intimidating or threatening nature.
• Jeggings: leggings resembling tight jeans.
• Mankini: Bikini for men.

The latest edition includes 66,500 words, compared to the 38,000 words in the original one. [Daily Mirror via TNW]

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(3 Comments)
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    bugwan

    Friday, August 19, 2011 at 7:44 AM

    Nice Monty Python reference in your text. My favourite scene of all – the Holy hand grenade of Antioch.

    Respect.

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    Franz

    Friday, August 19, 2011 at 3:40 PM

    Oxford dictionary lost it’s dignity and prestige long ago and this doesn’t help.

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    Steve

    Friday, August 19, 2011 at 11:49 PM

    Who the hell uses a dictionary these days. What’s so wrong about hitting google “Define [x]“?

    The concept of using a printed dictionary is about as anachronistic as using encyclopaedia tomes instead of Wiki.

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