I still can’t believe that we haven’t added strategery. I mean, it’s just as good a made-up word as textspeak, right?
The Oxford Dictionary has added 400 new entries, including:
Woot (exclamation, informal) - used to express elation, enthusiasm or triumph.
Retweet (verb): (On the social networking service Twitter) repost or forward (a message posted by another user). Also: (noun) a reposted or forwarded message on Twitter.
Textspeak (noun): Language regarded as characteristic of text messages, consisting of abbreviations, acronyms, initials, emoticons, etc.
I’m not sure that I fully understand how they determine which words to add, other than considering frequent social use.
In the upcoming weeks, I will help you define these new words by featuring them in Nerd Notes on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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Do you think Oxford should add new words to the dictionary? How should these words be decided? What do you think about the words Oxford added?
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