
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...
Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly. ...
Oxford English Dictionary have sought the public's help to find the roots of well-known words like ‘bonkers’ and ‘loo’. ...