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Oxford English dictionary: What do you think of the new words?
- August 19, 2010 10:28 AM |
- By POV
The 2010 FIFA World Cup, the global financial crisis and the rise of social networking have all made their mark on the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
The words vuvuzela (a horn instrument made famous at this year's soccer tournament in South Africa) and toxic debt (a debt with a high risk of default) are among 2,000 new entries in the dictionary's third edition, which was released Thursday.
Other additions include staycation (a vacation spent at one's home instead of travelling abroad), microblogging (the posting of very short blog entries), and defriend (to remove someone from a contact list on a social networking website like Facebook).
The dictionary was first published in 1998.
Time magazine has posted a fuller list of the new phrases here.
What do you think of the latest entries? Can you think of a word that should be included? Let us know.
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