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Woot! Concise Oxford English Dictionary Adds ‘Mankini,’ ‘Sexting’
The twelfth and latest edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is here, and it boasts 400 new entries of slang among its list of words.
True Meaning of Harry Potter Term ‘Muggle’? Marijuana
Here’s a question you probably weren’t expecting to hear: What do burnouts and Harry Potter fans have in common?
To all of you fans camping outside your local cinemas to watch the first showing of Harry Potter and the Deathly …
ZOMG! ‘NSFW,’ ‘Twittersphere’ Join the Oxford Dictionary
You already know what they mean. Now the dictionary can back you up.
Words Used to Describe 2012 GOP Field: Unimpressive, Stubborn, Dinosaurs
The Pew Research Center and the Washington Post teamed up to find out how America feels about the current (possible) candidates for the Republican party’s 2012 bid. The top response was unimpressive, perhaps because it was the …
‘Grrl’ For Seven Points, Please: Scrabble Adds More Slang Words to Official Dictionary
Scrabble traditionalists are going to hate this.
Wednesday Words: Royal Riddle, Trump Titles, “Food Rakes” and More
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Channel Your Inner Bard on Shakespeare’s 447th Birthday
All the world’s a stage, so today, proclaimeth thy love for Shakespeare by speaking as he would have.
Wednesday Words: Stephen Colbert Civics and Conspiracy Theories
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Wednesday Words: Making Vocabulary Fun Since, Well, Today
Welcome to the inaugural, weekly highlight of the vocabulary of our lives — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the ole tongue).
Utterly Obnoxious Utterances: “Whatever” Deemed Most Annoying Word
And with “like” at No. 2, the Clueless girls, like, totally need a vocabulary adjustment.
Culturomics: Google Tracks Culture Trends Through Books
Want to know if the Beatles really were bigger than Jesus? Then head over to the Google Books NGram Viewer.