FOSS, Social Sharing, and Tweetable are Some of the New Words Added to Oxford Dictionaries Online
Oxford Dictionaries Online has just released a list with some of the new words added in a February 2013 update.
Sample of Words From February 2013 Update
- appletini
- Baggy Green
- biosimilar
- blootered
- braggadocious
- burrata
- cane corso
- cruft
- dumbphone
- feature-complete
- flexitarian
- FOSS
- friend zone
- hump day
- metabolic syndrome
- omnium
- range anxiety
- schlumpy
- sillage
- social sharing
- SSD
- touchless
- tray bake
- tweetable
- upcharge
- voluntourism
Even more words in this recent Oxford Dictionaries Online blog post.
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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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