Saturday, August 20, 2011

Retweet and Sexting Sign Oxford Dictionary


Hundreds of new words inserted into the Oxford English dictionary. Among the 400 words that add to the vocabulary Classic Concise Oxford Dictionary, the word retweet, sexting and cyberbullying into it.

Omission of words smelled networking sites and technology is a step that made ​​Oxford to stay updated. "Some subjects are words smell technology and slang word," said Angus Stevenson of Oxord University Press.

Retweet itself is a word used on Twitter to share information. Texting is more directed to the action of sending pornographic content via short message or SMS and cyberbullying is a contempt action in cyberspace.


Now, the Concise Oxford Dictionary Home has more than 240,000 words. In addition to the words above, in this year also Oxford Classic Online Dictionary added the word OMG and LOL to the list of words in English.

With the presence of those words in the Oxford dictionary the 12th edition, shows the recognition that technology and social media are very influential in English from Mashable

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