You’re flaunting your power again. The newish words you’ve been using are showing up in the Oxford English Dictionary.
These are words that have become part of our vocabulary—words we now take for granted. So to hear they are now a part of a dictionary seems odd. Weren’t they there all along?
Evidently, they added 1,200 new words to the old Oxford. Among them are tweet (as a verb and a noun), follower, geekery, crowdsourcing, and one I haven’t heard—dad dancing. Ever hear that one? It actually brings up quite an image for me.
According to one source, it usually takes a word an entire decade in use before it is included in the dictionary. Tweet, however, has only been in use with regard to Twitter for seven years.
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I’m late getting my blog posted, partly because I’ve had business related to Catnapped and partly because I’ve been inundated with birthday wishes. Yes, today is my special day this year.
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