OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY FEATURES “EPIC” “GEEKERY”

Language is constantly evolving, and perhaps no one knows this better than the people who publish the Oxford English Dictionary. Updated quarterly, the comprehensive wordbook got a little larger this month, with the addition of “crowdsourcing,” “flash mob,” “geekery,” and “epic,” among other new entries. A number of existing words were also revised, including “tweet,” which gained additional, Twitter-related definitions despite the fact that company policy requires new words to be current for ten years prior to consideration. More… Discuss