{"id":853,"date":"2010-08-23T17:11:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T17:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2010-08-28T17:17:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T17:17:18","slug":"new-oxford-dictionary-of-english-entries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/23\/new-oxford-dictionary-of-english-entries\/","title":{"rendered":"New Oxford Dictionary of English entries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Vuvuzela.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Vuvuzela.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vuvuzela\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-854\" \/><\/a>The third edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oxford_Dictionary_of_English\">Oxford Dictionary of English<\/a> has announced new entries, including the word &#8220;vuvuzela&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Released on August 19th, the dictionary contains 2,000 new words and 200 new phrases, including &#8220;on the naughty step&#8221;. &#8220;Vuvuzela&#8221; made an impact during the recent World Cup &#8211; it is a horn instrument blown by football fans &#8211; because of the controversy surrounding the noise it makes. <\/p>\n<p>Oxford University Press uses a constantly updated &#8220;word bank&#8221; to ensure the dictionary is up to date &#8211; the first edition published in 1998 included &#8220;alcopop&#8221; and \u201ceye candy\u201d while the second edition additions included &#8220;Ruby Murrary&#8221; (rhyming slang for a curry) and \u201cchav\u201d.  Other entries for this edition include &#8220;microblogging&#8221; &#8211; the posting of short entries on a blog and &#8220;staycation&#8221; &#8211; a holiday in your own country.<br \/>\nClimate change and the financial crisis also impacted on the dictionary &#8211; with the introduction of &#8220;toxic debt&#8221; and &#8220;carbon capture&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The aim of the dictionary is to reflect current trends in the usage of English words. What words would you add?<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-11020038\">BBC News<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English has announced new entries, including the word &#8220;vuvuzela&#8221;. Released on August 19th, the dictionary contains 2,000 new words and 200 new phrases, including &#8220;on the naughty step&#8221;. &#8220;Vuvuzela&#8221; made an impact during the recent World Cup &#8211; it is a horn instrument blown by football fans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,57,44],"tags":[46,3,834,835,770,44],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-events","category-slang","category-words","tag-dictionary","tag-english","tag-oxford-dictionary-of-english","tag-oxord-university-press","tag-vuvuzela","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}