If you love, love, love words, the list of new words and sub-entries added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016 is right up your alley.
In a Mashable post, Sam Haysom points out a number of new words—“budgie smuggler” and “starter marriage” being two. I myself am very fond of “mofongo,” which sounds faintly dire but is actually “an Afro-Puerto Rican dish with fried plantains as its main ingredient. Plantains are picked green and mashed with salt and water in a wooden pilón, a kitchen device also known as a mortar and pestle.”
Mr. Haysom also offers a link to 13 annoying words recently banned by Lake Superior State University. (This is the school’s 41st annual list.)
- So
- Join the conversation
- Break the Internet
- Walk it back
- Presser
- Manspreading
- Stakeholder
- Price point
- Secret sauce
- Vape
- Giving me life
- Physicality
- Problematic
Some of these I’ve never heard of, so perhaps I’m in better shape than I thought. And as a bonus, here’s a link to 12 words you need to stop using. Now.
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