![]() ![]() “Now people use slang in social media posts, tweets, blogs, comments, text messages – you name it – so there’s a host of evidence for informal varieties of English that simply didn’t exist before.” “But it used to be hard to find printed evidence of the use of slang words. “Dictionaries have always included formal and informal English,” says the head of language content at Collins, Helen Newstead. ![]() ![]() Also included are so-called onomatopoeic interjections, with augh, blech, grr, waah and yeesh lending their situational help to Scrabblers. Hacktivist (someone who hacks computer systems for political reasons) is also a new addition, referring to groups like Anonymous. Technology’s deepening involvement with our lives is reflected with words like hashtag, facetime (the Apple video calling feature), tweep (one who tweets) and sexting. You can now play words like devo (as in devolution/devo max), twerking (“a type of dance involving rapid hip movement”), onesie, vape (inhaling from an electronic cigarette) and podiumed, the past participle used frequently in the Olympic Games. If you got those three in, you would earn 18, 5 and 11 points respectively.Īs well as slang (obvs, ridic, lolz, and the US rap inspired shizzle), there are new words from recent society and culture. So now if your bezzy is beating you, you can utilise lotsa new words in order to stay dench (excellent, the grime artist Lethal Bizzle’s phrase of choice).
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