{"id":1152,"date":"2011-07-26T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T19:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2011-07-22T14:49:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T18:49:26","slug":"zomg-new-words-added-to-oxford-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/zomg-new-words-added-to-oxford-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"ZOMG! New Words Added to Oxford Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ZOMG<\/strong>!\u00a0New words were recently added to the Oxford Dictionary!<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to start referring to &#8220;Livestrong bracelets&#8221; as &#8220;<strong>awareness bracelets<\/strong>&#8220;? Although I am glad to see that <strong>infographic<\/strong>\u00a0is now a real word. If only Chrome&#8217;s auto-correct knew that! And now I can officially dis someone by telling them that I&#8217;ll <strong>unfollow<\/strong>\u00a0them. Speaking of which, I wonder if unfriend is a word? (It <a href=\"http:\/\/oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/unfriend?region=us\" target=\"_blank\">is<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/oxforddictionaries.com\/search?dictionaryVersion=region-us&amp;newWord=New+words%3A+May+2011&amp;page=1&amp;pageSize=50&amp;sort=alpha&amp;type=dictionarysearch\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Dictionaries<\/a> to see the full list for yourself. The list is not <strong>NSFW<\/strong>. It&#8217;s a dictionary after all! Be careful how you use the words, though. As\u00a0my brother told me: &#8220;Just because a word is in the dictionary doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s proper\u00a0English.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/mashable\/status\/76892196355321857\" target=\"_blank\">@mashable<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZOMG!\u00a0New words were recently added to the Oxford Dictionary! Now I have to start referring to &#8220;Livestrong bracelets&#8221; as &#8220;awareness bracelets&#8220;? Although I am glad to see that infographic\u00a0is now a real word. If only Chrome&#8217;s auto-correct knew that! And now I can officially dis someone by telling them that I&#8217;ll unfollow\u00a0them. Speaking of which, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}