Washington: Crowdsourcing tweeters bonding in bromance and tracking cougars earned an official place in the English lexicon on Thursday when Merriam-Webster announced the addition of 150 words to its 2011 Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Social media-influenced terms like "crowdsourcing," which is "the practice of obtaining information from a large group of people who contribute online," joined pop culture-informed words such as "bromance" - a "close, nonsexual friendship between men" and a...
08:05 AM, Aug 26, 2011
London: Sexting has just got the official sanction. And joining it in the dictionary is woot - a word that, for the uninitiated, means an electronic commuication to express enthusiasm or triumph. The latest edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary also contains words like retweet, which means to forward a message on Twitter, reported Daily Telegraph. Then there is jeggings, which is a cross between leggings and jean. There's...
12:11 PM, Aug 19, 2011
New Delhi: The Oxford English Dictionary on Thursday added abbreviations popularly used in electronic communication; including OMG and LOL, as part of the official lexicon. These words or slang will join other entries of this sort such as IMHO (in my humble opinion), TMI (too much information) and BFF (best friends forever) among others. "The initialisms are quicker to type than the full forms, and in the case of text...
11:35 AM, Mar 25, 2011
London: A slew of new words, including "bloggable", "scareware" and "onliner", have made it to Oxford Dictionaries for the first time, thanks to the worldwide web's increasing influence on the English language. The new entries include the words "scareware", which means malicious computer programmes, "trackpad" (touchpad) and "buttload" (a large amount). Other new words or phrases in the past nine months include "bloggable", defined as a suitable topic for blogging,...
12:40 PM, Feb 24, 2011
Islamabad: Life without Facebook and Google may be impossible for most of those hooked to the internet, and yet both words as verbs stand banished in a popular annual word list that rolls out on New Year. Michigan's Lake Superior State University (LSSU), which invites submissions through the year to make the list, has also banished "viral", "epic" and "fail" for their overuse and misuse. The banishment of "Facebook" and...
05:44 PM, Jan 01, 2011
Detroit: It's official: Viral went viral, and now it's been virtually vaporized. Michigan's Lake Superior State University features the term linked to popular online video clips in its annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. The 2011 list, compiled by the university from nominations submitted from across North America throughout the year, was released Friday. Nominators did more than vanquish...
12:19 PM, Dec 31, 2010
New Delhi: According to the Global Language Monitor, the word 'WikiLeaks' appeared sporadically in the global media in 2006. But now it has been cited more than 300 million times, even with a quick Google search. This after it met the requisite criteria of geographic reach as well as "depth and breadth" of recorded usage of the English language. The word 'wiki' is Hawaiian in origin and is usually defined...
10:44 AM, Dec 28, 2010
Los Angeles: It happened to Xerox and more recently to Google, and now "wikileaks" has joined the list of proper names that are common enough to enter the English language as their own word. Texas-based Global Language Monitor on Tuesday said the website WikiLeaks, which has publicly released thousands of confidential U.S. government documents, has been referred to by so many people that it has met the criteria of reach,...
09:24 AM, Dec 22, 2010
Los Angeles: US dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster named "Austerity" as the word of the year Monday, reflecting the cost-cutting ethos that has gripped the US economy and culture. "'Austerity' clearly resonates with many people," said Peter Sokolowski, editor at large at Merriam-Webster, who monitors online dictionary searches. "We often hear it used in the context of government measures, but we also apply it to our own personal finances and what is...
02:07 PM, Dec 21, 2010
London: The English language is enjoying unprecedented growth and has nearly doubled in size over the last century. Researchers at Harvard University and Google found that the language was expanding by 8,500 words a year in the new millennium and now stands at 1,022,000 words. The rate of increase over the years is shown by the fact that the language has grown by more than 70 per cent since 1950,...
07:07 PM, Dec 17, 2010
The 126-year-old dictionary could be the latest victim of our digital revolution. ...
10:50 AM, Sep 09, 2010
London: The ever-present hum of the vuvuzela during this year's soccer World Cup catapulted the plastic trumpet to instant fame and now it has earned itself a place in the revered Oxford Dictionary of English. Vuvuzela is among 2,000 new words and phrases added to the third edition of the dictionary, published on Thursday, which is compiled from analysis of two billion words used in everything from novels to Internet...
08:55 PM, Aug 19, 2010
It means removing someone as "friend" on a social networking site. ...
10:16 AM, Nov 17, 2009
Merriam-Webster nails frenemy: a person who pretends to be a friend. ...
11:46 AM, Jul 10, 2009
'Cuddies' in the race and 'OK' there too. Decision on June 10. ...
02:22 PM, Jun 06, 2009
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