Have you been to a Tweetup lately? Defriended anyone on Facebook? What did you do during your staycation? Maybe you saw a bromance musical? If these strange sounding words are not yet part of your lexicon, pick up the newest Oxford Dictionary of English, which has added these and more than 2,000 other new words and phrases.

Catherine Soanes, head of online dictionaries for Oxford University Press, told NPR:

Well, I think computing and the Internet has been really fast-moving area of language development for 10 to 15 years, at least. And the way we track words within that subject area is the same way in which we track words in any subject area.

We actually have a huge database of about two billion words, so we can see words as they come into the language. And if we have enough evidence that a word isn’t just being used by one person on one website, it’s being used by a community of users across quite a large spectrum, then those words become candidates.

Looks like these words are here to stay!

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