Is this story bloggable? A raft of new online words have been added to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, including “bloggable” (a suitable topic for blogging) and “clickjacking” (concealing hyperlinks to send web users somewhere unexpected).
“Cybersecurity” also gets a mention for the first time, as does “trackpad” and “scareware”.
Gabby Fletcher, a spokeswoman for Oxford Dictionaries Online, told the Telegraph: “The rapid development of technology creates multiple new products, services, and functionalities, which all need new terms to describe them.
“We are also seeing the very fast circulation of new vocabulary on a global basis, with the expansion of social media.”
The Oxford dictionary recognised the words “paywall”, “tweetup” and “microblogging” last August.
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