Among its other additions are 'bitcoin,' 'cake pop' and 'space tourism.' Aug. 28, 2013— -- Dictionaries can have personalities too. The Oxford English Dictionary, which only recently accepted ...

If you thought twerking was nothing more than a tragic phase that would one day thrust itself off of the dance floor and out of our vocabulary — you, dear friends, were wrong.

Oxford English Dictionary selects ‘rage bait’ as its 2025 Word of the Year, reflecting rising internet slang and growing ...

Twitter isn’t just a social network, it’s now part of the electronic lexicon. Oxford Dictionaries Online has added Twittersphere to its listing of words, along with technology oriented acronyms like ...

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Too bad there isn't an "emoji" that can properly depict the look on grammar gurus' faces when they find out that the word "twerk" has been added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online (ODO). It would ...

Back in 2013, as part of a quarterly online update, the Oxford Dictionary added the word “twerk” to its collection. The addition came after Miley Cyrus’ widely discussed performance at the MTV Video ...

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Miley Cyrus isn't responsible, though this week she certainly did introduce a lot of us old folks to "twerking": "Twerk" is one of several dozen words or phrases that Oxford Dictionaries Online has ...

Sexist synonyms for "woman" in the Oxford Dictionary of English galvanized more than 30,000 people to sign a petition calling for their removal. A Change.org petition started in June by London-based ...

According to the Oxford English Dictionary the word “biker” started out in the 1880s as a way to identify people who rode bicycles. But by the 1950s the word had traveled downhill to the point where ...