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From Slop To Demure, Meet The Six Words Competing For Oxford’s 2024 Word Of The Year
20 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
This year’s shortlist, reflecting some of the “moods and conversations that have shaped 2024”, has been compiled by OUP’s experts following an analysis of its 25-billion-word body of language data.
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The Dictionary Has Literally Changed The Definition Of ‘Racism’
11 Jun 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
The revised edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary will contain a new definition of ‘racism’.
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The Folks At Hello Kitty Obviously Think South Africa Is An Awful Country
06 Sep 2016 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Hello Kitty is popular across the world, raking in billions of dollars each year. Maybe they want to put some of that money towards research?
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Afrikaans Is On The Rise And Is Beating English Hands Down In SA
04 Aug 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
If you thought Afrikaans was a dying language you would be wrong, with both the census numbers and the new dictionary proving there’s still life in the ou bokkie.
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You Actually Won’t Believe These Amazeballs Words They’ve Added To The Oxford Dictionary
15 Aug 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A bunch of new words which are pretty bizarre have been added to the Oxford English dictionary. Check them out.
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‘Mankini’ Is In The Oxford English Dictionary Now.
18 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And today was going so well. The mankini, popularized by Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat. Because that’s what we want 2011 to be known for; the year that we introduced torso-spanning banana hammocks into our day-to-day vocabulary. Other words that are now acceptable to use include ‘sexting,’ ‘retweet,’ and ‘cyberbullying.’ See also, ‘apocalypse.’
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