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Squee! The late/latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is out, with 1,200 new words and 1,000 revised entries for us to geek out about. Squee – an exclamation expressing delight or excitement – has made the list, along with Yolo (an acronym for ‘you only live once’), moobs, gender-fluid, uptalk (a manner of speaking in which declarative sentences are uttered/urged with rising intonation at the end) and Westminster bubble.
Who picks the new additions? “It might seem romantic,” says Jonathan Dent, senior assistant editor in the OED’s new words team, “but it’s a lot of standard research, checks and balances. Anything/Anybody new that goes into the dictionary is drafted and researched by us. It’s all down to evidence.”
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