'Sexting,' 'Retweet,' and Other Tech Slang Added to Oxford English Dictionary
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Over 400 new words have been added to the newly released 12th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary—including a bevy of tech phrases that have emerged with the rise of sites like Facebook and Twitter.
“Social networking sites have created a real language of the net,” Angus Stevenson, an editor of the 12th edition of the OED, told Reuters. “We've noticed that new words come into currency much more quickly as a result of the Internet, as people see friends, or friends of friends, using new words and copy them.”
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