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Article: Dictionary grows as English language evolves.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- January 8, 2003
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Byline: Howard Shapiro
You badass Grinch! You hit the beltway for some body-piercing plus some lap dancing. Then you get sticker shock, head for home, and your road rage overtakes you. Get real, gomer, or you'll end up feet first!
Ah, a perfect Oxford English Dictionary paragraph for the new millennium.
It contains 10 words or phrases never included in what many scholars consider the signature dictionary of the English language. Now, these and about 3,500 other new words and phrases have made the ultimate linguistic cut.
They appear for the first time in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, a condensation of the Big Momma ...