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    YOLO, amazeballs, clickbait, douchebaggery and more are now in the dictionary

    http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/p...m-august-2014/

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    and my word sadly "Functubation" is still not.

    Functubation - Funk-tu-bation, shortened Functubatin'. Verb. Pulling your pud whilst also performing a task. Portmanteau of Function and Batin'.
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    Soooooo, they are basically killing the dictionary slowly. When YOLO gets put in the official dictionary you know something is wrong.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blade Wolf View Post
    Soooooo, they are basically killing the dictionary slowly. When YOLO gets put in the official dictionary you know something is wrong.
    It's not in their 'official' dictionary.

    "What’s the difference between OxfordDictionaries.com and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)?

    The new entries mentioned above have been added to OxfordDictionaries.com, not the OED.

    The English language dictionary content on OxfordDictionaries.com focuses on current English and includes modern meanings of words and associated usage examples.

    The OED, on the other hand, is a historical dictionary and forms a record of all the core words and meanings in English over more than 1,000 years, from Old English to the present day, including many obsolete and historical terms."

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    Dictionaries are descriptive, not proscriptive. They do not define what is or is not a word, they codify the collective use of language. If people use a word differently, that new definition becomes the dictionary definition. If people use a new word, it gets included. That's how dictionaries work.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Connal View Post
    Phoneface - fone-face; The act of walking while looking down at your phone. Used in a sentence; She phonefaced right into that poll; She got hit by the bus while phonefacing.
    The word for that is "dumbwalking".

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