The Oxford English Dictionary wants to show itself to be keeping up with trends and trendy words, some of which you may wish you never heard of. Its blog has post
Buzzworthy words added to Oxford Dictionaries Online – squee! has been paraphrased by a number of other online news sources already. But odds are good that this is the only one not to include a picture of Miley Cyrus demonstrating a move in the not Disney approved dance known as twerk (one of the additions).
Those who are interested in the digital currency movement may be happy to see that bitcoin makes it in (in the lower case form). And in a nod to something that's been practically beaten to death in tech circles, BYOD is there. It's intersting to see how many of these are underlined by Blogger's spell check, about half I'd say, including the title's own "squee" and "selfie," another word we may wish we didn't have to have.
Here's the full list of Oxford's updates.
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