Hey, geeks. Scrabble just added tons of new words to its official dictionary for the first time in four years. A lot of it is internet slang you’ve already been trying to pass off as actual words in heated Scrabble competitions.
Oxford University Press has updated its dictionaries to include very important words that we use basically every day, like "vape" and "binge-watch."
It's time for that part of the year where we helplessly debate why esteemed publications are succumbing to all the things we make fun of on blogs. Merriam-Webster is once again trolling all the people who paid way too much for their English Lit degrees with its annual list of new dictionary words.
Four different forms of the word 'cunt' have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, and they're all spectacular.
You know what? I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I don't think dictionaries should keep inducting new words.* I think we have enough already. ABOLISH IT. Like, I know we all had a hearty wocka-wocka when Merriam-Webster added "aha moment" and "man cave" earlier this month, but do we really need that…
The 1989 Alyson Almanac is a treasure trove of gay and lesbian data, and its Dictionary of Slang and Historical Terms is particularly interesting. Most of the terms in the dictionary referenced gay male activities, but there were plenty of special lesbian words I'd never heard before in my whole life — and so many…
You can toss that mix tape you were hanging on to for sentimental purposes because the folks behind the Oxford English Dictionary have decided no one even needs to know what a "cassette tape" is anymore. The term is being removed to make way for new additions like "sexting," "retweet" and "mankini." That's a fabulous…
Swoon. "Originally published in the July 1922 edition of FLAPPER magazine, this dictionary went into some detail, listing the group's slang and providing definitions. In the process, it also provided an insight: through the slang we can begin to discern attitudes and priorities and the mindset of the adherents. And…
A school committee has decided not to toss the dictionaries from a fourth-grade classroom - which caused a brouhaha last week when someone discovered it contained a definition of "oral sex." Access, however, will be restricted. [LATimes]
It is apodeictic that a periapt might skirr against the garments of a fubsy, agrestic farmer, and compossible that said farmer might exclaim, "drat!" Yeah, whatever — you try using "endangered words" in a sentence.