Vocab Boost
1. "New words for Collins English Dictionary"
< http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2005/06/08/1077764-ap.html >
"Chavs, yarcos and neds - these are the new tribes of Britain, as defined
by compilers of the latest edition of the Collins English Dictionary"
2. "Online dictionary breathes life into English"
< http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1267618.htm >
"Collins has launched a 'Living Dictionary' which can help people decipher
new English terms like Santa stress, tinseltastic, mucus trooper or
bingeworker"
3. "Dictionary says Americans getting phatter"
< http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200307/s892649.htm >
"Fed up with your McJob? Then curb your agita with a phat brewski and be
grateful you did not throw away your last dead presidents on the latest
dead-cat bounce on the market"
4. "New words are added to dictionary"
< http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/6/2003/06/30/story146.html >
"A former dot-commer working a McJob was listening to some headbangers
while laying out the last of his dead presidents for longnecks and some
less than heart-healthy Frankenfood"
5. "Oxford 'bada bings' its latest dictionary"
< http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200308/s929270.htm >
"'Bada bing', the catchphrase popularised by the hit television show The
Sopranos, has earned a place alongside 3,000 other new entries in the
latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English"
6. "McDonald's CEO upset over 'McJob' entry"
< http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=32369 >
"McDonald's says it deserves a break from the unflattering way the latest
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary depicts its job opportunities.
Among some 10,000 new additions to an updated version released in June
was the term 'McJob,' defined as 'low paying and dead-end work.'"
7. "Farmers stew over 'couch potato'"
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4108964.stm >
"Farmers want 'couch potato' removed from the dictionary because they
believe the expression is damaging the vegetable's image"
8. "Website embedded in naming top words, phrases"
< http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200312/s1016494.htm >
"'Embedded', as in the reporters assigned to accompany military units
during the war, beat out 'blog' and 'SARS' as the top word of 2003,
website yourDictionary.com said"
9. "'Ginormous' tops non-dictionary word list"
< http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/custom/fringe/sns-ap-
winning-non-words,0,6431077.story >
"The editors of Merriam-Webster dictionaries got more than 3,000 entries
when, in a lighthearted moment, they asked visitors to their Web site to
submit their favorite words that aren't in the dictionary"
10. "Vatican breathes new life into Latin"
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3030169.stm >
"An up-to-date Latin dictionary produced by the Vatican goes on sale this
week, modernising a language considered by many best left consigned to
history... In their day, Rome's rulers might have benefited from a
'telephonium albo televisifico coniunctum' - or video telephone - to
stay in touch with distant parts of the empire"
