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Oxford English Dictionary adds Woot, Sexting and Retweet into word library

08/19/2011, English, being a living language, has just grown its official list of words that will definitely have techies happy, smiling from ear to ear. With 400 new words being added to the list, the Oxford English Dictionary now holds around [...]

ZOMG and Twittersphere are latest modern day words worthy of Oxford Dictionary entry

06/03/2011, You know that Internet and geek culture has invaded us to our very cores when you find words appearing inside the Oxford Dictionary when it was once considered to be sacrilegeous and unimaginable. Kudos to the person who thought up [...]

LOL, OMG, FYI makes it to online Oxford English Dictionary

03/27/2011, The age of the Internet has certainly changed many things, and apart from the convenience of online banking and transactions, it makes perfect sense for Internet lexicon to spill into everyday speech and words, and among the three of the [...]