The Concise Oxford English Dictionary — which is celebrating its centennial birthday — now has more than 240,000 words. “Sadly, the new edition has no room for tremendous words like brabble ‘paltry noisy quarrel’ and growlery ‘place to growl in, private room, den’ — what we might call a man cave these days,” Oxford University Press’s Angus Stevenson said in a blog post. “But the preoccupations of today’s Generation Y have opened the door to some equally colourful vocabulary — how about momo, noob, nurdle, and woot?”
Among the other additions to the Oxford English Dictionary are jeggings, mankini (a term popularized by Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat movie) and domestic goddess. Earlier this year, the Oxford English Dictionary Online added WTF! OMG, LOL, FYI to its list of official English words.
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