Oxford Dictionaries Add New Words Including Scareware, Clickjacking, and "Jazz Hands"
Update: Here’s a Complete List of the New Words (With Definitions)
From an Article Appearing in The Telegraph:
Gabby Fletcher, a spokeswoman for Oxford Dictionaries Online, said: “The rapid development of technology creates multiple new products, services, and functionalities, which all need new terms to describe them.
“We are also seeing the very fast circulation of new vocabulary on a global basis, with the expansion of social media.
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See Also: How do you decide what to include in a dictionary? (via Oxford Dictionaries)
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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