The News Of Tomorrow, Today
The News Of Tomorrow, Today
Oxford English Dictionary
Brian Kahn
Have you ever used a word like “Kubrickian” to describe something and felt a little strange? Referred to a movie as “torture porn” and been given a dirty look? Well, fear not, because those and over 100 other film-related words or phrases have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Languages evolve over time and as much as we might hate words being vandalised by roving bands of lexically-challenged youths, we can’t really stop the march of our shifting vocabularies. Sometimes however, a good one sneaks in. Like “budgie smuggler”. OK, good might be a little strong…
Time to fire up Instagram and party like it’s, um, 2013, because ‘selfie’ has been named the Oxford Dictionaries word of the year.
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