It's always fun to see lists of the new words the major dictionary companies accept each year and add to their dictionaries. The words are a great reflection of our changing world, new trends, new ideas.
Here are a couple of the 150 that got added to Merriam-Webster's College Dictionary this year. Actually, I'm rather surprised they didn't get in sooner.
bromance: a close nonsexual friendship between men.
cougar: a middle-aged woman seeking a romantic relationship with a younger man.
crowdsourcing: the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers.
social media: forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos).
tweet: a post made on the Twitter online message service.
See the Publishers Weekly blog for a longer article and list:
http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/?p=6615&utm_source=Publishers+Weekly%27s+PW+Daily&utm_campaign=c1236bebe7-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email
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3 comments:
Bromance? Am I out of the loop! I've never heard that. What about Womance for women friends who don't fancy each other? Though that sounds like someone has a lisp.
Well, Barb, you obviously don't watch the Kardashians on TV (gag, gag). It's frequently mentioned that the brother (what IS his name) of Kloe, Kim and Kourtney has a bromance with his sisters' spouses/SOs.
Raelene
Ah, this is what comes of living in the UK and not watching much TV - I've never heard of the Kardashians - just as well by the sounds of it. LOL
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