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New words from South Africa . Some of South Africa’s many languages have contributed various loan words to this quarterly update. The ... Bed, Bomb, and Beyond: the OED March 2025 update The Oxford English Dictionary’s March 2025 update is here, and it’s a %@$&*! good one. For starters, we’ve added a word that describes the thing used ...

Now, let’s look at some new words for 2025. Environment Climavore (n) According to the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, a climavore is someone who chooses their diet based on the impact of food production on the climate. This new term links diet to environmental awareness.

Another new word from South Africa includes ‘sharp-sharp’, which has a couple of different meanings. The first is using it as a casual way to say hello or goodbye, with this usage tracing back ...

Gigil, a Philippine word added to the Oxford English Dictionary, decribes the feeling we get when we see someone or something cute Ever found yourself speechless in the presence of overwhelming ...

This marks the first official addition of new words from international languages to the OED, available in the March 2025 update. Here's a list of the latest OED update additions from Southeast ...

Recently Oxford Dictionaries released this year's list of new words that due to popular use had made their way into the dictionary; a validation of their mainstream (or at least very fervent niche) existence. We’re talking about terms such as “manspreading”, “wine o’clock”, “mic drop” and “awesomesauce”. It can be hard to imagine that someone 10 years ago didn’t know, for ...

Asian English just scored a major win – 23 words from across Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines have officially entered the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). From everyday slang to iconic ...

April 2, 2025 The Oxford English Dictionary last week added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable, like the golden ...

The Oxford English Dictionary adds 42 new words in March 2025, including 'gigil' from Tagalog, Irish slang, and South African expressions.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) continually updates its content to reflect the evolving nature of the English language. In its March 2025 update, the OED introduced several new words and phrases from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds: Irish English Additions: Blaa: A soft bread roll originating from Waterford, Ireland.

A number of new words have been added to the quarterly update for the Oxford English Dictionary. ... The new additions for the first quarter of 2025 are from Ireland, southeast Asia and South ...

Some of the ‘new’ words are very familiar (‘load’, ‘class’ or ‘terror’) but with new meanings. Others are quite new (‘gigil’, ‘ludraman’ or ‘shweshwe’). We put them into Word 365 US English to see how which ones the Microsoft dictionary could recognize and which had the red-squiggly underline. The result is a mixed bag.

The Oxford English Dictionary has added new untranslatable words from South East Asia. The Oxford English Dictionary has added new untranslatable words from South East Asia. ... 27 March 2025.

In its March 2025 update, the prestigious Oxford English Dictionary (OED) welcomed 11 new Filipino words into its lexicon, marking another milestone in the global recognition of Philippine English. These additions reflect the richness and uniqueness of Filipino culture, language, and everyday life.

The phrase is less than 20 years old. It is credited to the Chinese takeaway restaurant in Templeogue, Dublin called Sunflower which coined it in 2006 and the first social media post mentioning it ...

The new additions for the first quarter of 2025 are from Ireland, southeast Asia and South Africa, BBC reported. Full Statement from OED Much has been written about so-called ‘untranslatable words’—words and phrases in one language that cannot be translated into another.

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When new slang words pop up, we toss those in, too. Sometimes, words are even adopted into English from other languages. Dictionary editors monitor academic journals, social media, newspapers, blog posts . . . pretty much any kind of published writing to find new words and new meanings of existing words. Here are 39 of the newest words in English!