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caeli · 3405 days ago · link · · parent · post: New Words Added to the Oxford Dictionary, including "Fat-Shame" "Butthurt" and "Redditor"
inb4 OMG THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS GOING TO SHIT I love that the OED does this. Michel et al. (2011) showed using the Google ngrams corpus that dictionaries in general are terrible at keeping up with current new lexical items, and often retain words that haven't been in use for centuries.