Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of our vocabulary — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Vocabulary
As OED Makes Room For New Words, ‘Cassette Tape’ Gets Nixed
As the Oxford English Dictionary heralds in new words, they’ve ousted some dated terms — including the apparently beloved “cassette tape”.
Researchers Detect ‘Disappearing’ Words That Are Falling Out of Usage
What do the words “succedaneum” and “wittol” have in common?
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.
Wednesday Words: Backdoor Bragging, Hacktivists and More
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of our vocabulary — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Wednesday Words: Twitter Talk, Movie Catchphrases and More
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of our vocabulary — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Wednesday Words: Cone-ing, ‘Tea Party Hobbits’ and More
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of our vocabulary — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Wednesday Words: Social Assassins, Internet Snoopers and More
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of our vocabulary — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
The British Dislike ‘Americanisms,’ But Unfazed Yankees Could Care Less
Full disclosure straight off: your writer is a Brit, but that doesn’t mean he can’t poke fun at both sides in this apparent debate.
Wednesday Words: Bacon Talk, Carmageddon and Wendi-Slapping
Welcome to NewsFeed’s weekly highlight of our vocabulary — including useful, new, hilarious and surprising words (as well as some that are just fun to roll off the old tongue).
Wednesday Words: Egg Labels, Harry Potter and ‘Hollywords’
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: Casey Anthony, Hot Dogs and Wildfires
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).