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IAS > My Day > Posts > Internet-derived words - teenagers help pump up the Collins English Dictionary

9/1/2009

Internet-derived words - teenagers help pump up the Collins English Dictionary
Heh noobs!  Check it out - 267 words added to this year's new edition of the Collins English Dictionary - many of them from our younger populations' conversations via social technologies.  Texting, gaming, twitters, friending and more - all have been instrumental in the evolution of the English language.  Here's the (UK) Times article on it:
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