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Tech Buzzwords Added to Dictionaries

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-forget-web20 dept.

Mark Owen writes "With technology buzzwords becoming so commonly used in daily life, Webster and Oxford have both begun to include some new terms in their latest editions. Some of their newest additions include: adware, biodiesel, codec, digicam, google (as a verb), geocaching, hacktivism, mash-up, rewriteable, ringtone, spyware, and texting."

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  1. Re:'Texting' is a Noun? by dereference · · Score: 4, Informative
    I thought 'texting' would be a verb

    Actually it's called a gerund, which is typically any noun made from appending "ing" to a verb. It's correctly a noun, as in, "Texting is fun."

  2. google is my dictionary by rucs_hack · · Score: 4, Informative

    in 99% of cases where I need to know how to spell a word, I type it into google.

    The 'did you mean' feature has yet to let me down.

    I don't know if they intended this, but it's so reliable that my dictionary stays on the shelf these days, and I barely ever have to use online dictionaries, except when I'm trying to locate a precise definition of a word.