OED Updates

Below is the latest quarterly update to the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY which is also available at www.oed.com

Psst! Have you read on the WIKI the latest entry about a certain HIGH PROFILE BLONDIE who recently decided to IXNAY her wealthy beau for never washing his TIGHTY-WHITIES?! I bet she?s regretting that PRENUP now.

NEW ENTRIES TO OED ONLINE...
The latest alphabetical range to be revised is PRAKIT through PRIM (an excessively formal or precise person), including 2693 new and revised entries. The dominant feature of this release is the sequence of words beginning with pre-, with the main entry containing 701 words to which pre- is prefixed, and is immediately followed by 2,263 main entries, most of which involve the use of pre- as a prefix. Words include PRESOAK, PREMADE, and PREBIOTIC (think PRIMORDIAL) as well as FLIP-FLOP to SHELL-SUIT, DOG AND BONE to SHAGGY DOG STORY, BLOODY MARY to GLASGOW KISS.
For a full list of new and revised words in this range, click here

THE OED MAKES HEADLINES FOR THE ADDITION OF WIKI!
New entries have been added across the alphabet ? from DJEMBE (a goblet shaped-drum of a type originating in West Africa) to TA-DA (Used to accompany or draw attention to a dramatic entrance, announcement, etc.), but it?s the addition of WIKI (A type of web page designed so that its content can be edited by anyone who accesses it, using a simplified markup language) that has the press buzzing. And, see a full list of new entries from across the alphabet here:
http://dictionary.oed.com/help/updates/Prakrit-prim.html#oos

As a new feature of the OED quarterly updates there is analysis of the latest batch of revised entries to the site. So, for a full report on significant words, and statistics about pronunciations, quotations, and etymology read John Simpson's fascinating article, which can be found here:http://dictionary.oed.com/news/revisions.html