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The Oxford English Dictionary is a warehouse of over 600,000 words. Despite this large arsenal, we continue to coin, clip, and blend new words into existence, and the OED folks pump some of these new words into their dictionary. From Bromance to Twitterati, here are some more recent additions with their official definitions.
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Fantastic
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OMG is an abbreviation tho
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I hate how they spelled w00t.
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Whovian and muggle. Yes. Good.
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You guys. “Whovian” is an official word in the dictionary now.
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Twitterati? Can I make up...word now? Tumblrtwist. I just don’t know
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They’ve added abbreviations.. Whatevs/Obvs. This saddens me.
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das me
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I remember how upset everyone was when jiggy got added to the dictionary. I remember….
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Bromance is a word, guys.
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