Monday, June 26, 2006

Nanobot, hacktivism, strip mall, speed dating added to OED


On June 15, the Oxford English Dictionary added a slew of new words including: nanobot, hacktivism, mash-up, adware, heroin chic, air kiss, freakazoid (n. *and* adj.), geocache, Google, rug muncher, dotcom, and player-hater.
Link to OED page, Link to Minesota Public Radio story (via Howard Lovy's Nanobot)



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