Oxford English Dictionary
Zeitgeist in a word: Oxford's 2024 shortlist reflects a world in flux
As we barrel towards a generative AI-dominated future, the art of picking a word of the year will only get trickier
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Rizz, from charisma, crowned Word of the Year by Oxford University Press
Etymologically, the term is believed to be a shortened form of the word "charisma", taken from the middle part of the word, which is an unusual word formation pattern
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Meaningful updates
How new words are reshaping our understanding of the world around us
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Here's how Oxford zeroes in on its word of the year as people vote for 2022
As OUP leaves the word of the year to a people's vote, here's how the process works
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'Quockerwodger': Tharoor's latest head-scratcher; Here is what it means
'A useful addition to our political vocabulary!?' Tharoor added about the word he informed dates back to 1860
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The lexical outbreak
Oxford English Dictionary was occasioned by an explosion of new linguistic usages driven by the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic
Amber Alert to Nomophobia, 10 words that entered the dictionary in 2019
Here are some of the most interesting additions to Oxford English Dictionary in 2019
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'Idiocracy' among 1,400 new words added in Oxford English dictionary
The dictionary records over 100 words derived ultimately from the Greek suffix -cracy, meaning 'power' or 'rule'
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From idiocracy to fam, Spielbergian, Oxford dictionary gets 1,400 new words
The OED is updated four times a year, with the next update is due in December
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'Anna' to 'gulab jamun': 70 Indian words are now part of Oxford Dictionary
Many of the words describe food and relationships, such as 'anna' (elder brother), 'abba' (father), 'gulab jamun', 'mirch masala', 'keema', 'funda' and 'chamcha'.
