'Frenemy', 'staycations' and 'vlog' enter Merriam-Webster's dictionary.Byline: ANI Melbourne, July 10 (ANI): Don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what people mean when they use words like 'frenemy', 'staycations', 'flash mob' and 'vlog'? Well, now you can look for these words in a dictionary. About 100 new words, which reflect the current English language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. , have reportedly been added to the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate col·le·giate adj. 1. Of, relating to, or held to resemble a college. 2. Of, for, or typical of college students. 3. Of or relating to a collegiate church. Dictionary. And many of these additions include 'locavore'(which is used to describe someone who only eats locally-grown food), 'vlog' (a video-blog's new name) and 'frenemy' (a person who acts like a friend but is really an enemy).ther words that have made it to the dictionary are 'flash mob', which is a group of people who go to a designated public place for some sort of action; and 'staycation', where someone takes leave from work but stays at home for the duration. John Morse
The phrase 'green-collar', which describes someone who works to protect the natural environment, will be placed with more traditional working definitions like that of 'white-collar' and 'blue-collar' in the dictionary. "These are not new words in the language, by any means. These really are words now likely to show up in The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, in The Wall Street Journal," News.com.au quoted Morse as saying. He claimed that that when words were quite commonly used in conversations, it was hard for the dictionary to ignore them. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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