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It's official: Drake and Kanye West are in the lexicon. This is thanks to Oxford Dictionaries, which has just added the terms "YOLO" and "cray" to its online database of words. Much to the chagrin of linguistic prescriptivists, these words were among those added during a quarterly update of Oxford University Press's online dictionary, OxfordDictionaries.com. Other new additions include adorbs, binge-watch, humblebrag, listicle, vape, SMH, side boob, neckbeard, hate-watch, live-tweet, second screen, sentiment analysis, cord cutting, hyperconnected, acquihire, clickbait, Deep Web, dox,...Read More
It's official: Drake and Kanye West are in the lexicon. This is thanks to Oxford Dictionaries, which has just added the terms "YOLO" and "cray" to its online database of words. Much to the chagrin of linguistic prescriptivists, these words were among those added during a quarterly update of Oxford University Press's online dictionary, OxfordDictionaries.com. Other new additions include adorbs, binge-watch, humblebrag, listicle, vape, SMH, side boob, neckbeard, hate-watch, live-tweet, second screen, sentiment analysis, cord cutting, hyperconnected, acquihire, clickbait, Deep Web, dox,...Read More
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