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What the Heck Does ‘Tergiversate’ Mean? It’s Dictionary.com’s Word Of The Year
If you find yourself looking for a dictionary (or more likely heading to Google) after reading that ‘tergiversate’ is Dictionary.com’s word of the year, you’re probably not alone.
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Sexting, Retweet and Jeggings Among New Words Added to Dictionary
The ‘Concise Oxford English Dictionary,’ celebrating its 100th birthday this year, has added 400 new entries to the English language.
The freshman class of words that are now officially, well, words include “sexting,” “retweet,” “mankini,” “noob,” “jeggings,” and “woot.”
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‘Grrl,’ ‘Thang,’ ‘Facebook’ Added to Scrabble Dictionary
Are you desperately searching for that perfect triple-word score? Well, Scrabble is here to help.
The Scotsman is reporting that Scrabble has added everything from slang to social media to the Collins Official Scrabble Words book.
Yep, that means you can now play such words as "grrl," "thang," "innit," "Facebook" and "MySpace." (We're totally blaming AT&T for this one.)