The eNotes Blog Dont Have Any FOMO! The Complete List of New Words in the OED isHere

Dont Have Any FOMO! The Complete List of New Words in the OED isHere Dont know what FOMO stands for? Yeah, me either. (Psst old folks! It means, Fear of Missing Out.)   Good thing it is one of the sixty-five new entries  in the venerable  Oxford English Dictionary. As you will see, many of them are from the virtual world.   Among my favorites, which originated on Reddit, is TL;DR (Too long; did not read.) Some of this years entries have met with howls of outrage among the literati, but we would all do well to remember the wise counsel of Jorge Luis Borges who said that language is not, as we are led to suppose by the dictionary, the invention of academicians or philologists. Rather, it has been evolved through timeby peasants, by fishermen, by hunters, by riders.† Say that over and over to yourself when you understand that   twerk is now an officially recognized word: verb [no object]  informal dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance:just wait till they catch their daughters twerking to this songtwerk it  girl, work it girl Here are a few of those new entries.   Do you know your emoji from your omnishambles? WELL, DO YOU? apols A/W babymoon balayage bitcoin blondie buzzworthy BYOD cake pop chandelier earring click and collect dappy derp digital detox double denim emoji fauxhawk FIL flatform food baby geek chic girl crush grats guac hackerspace Internet of things jorts LDR me time MOOC omnishambles pear cider phablet pixie cut selfie space tourism squee srsly street food unlike