Vuvuzela has made it onto the latest Oxford Dictionary of English. The South African horn. which makes a droning monotone note, is one of 2 000 new words and phrases in the book.
Other words to the the seal of approval include Tweetup (a meeting arranged over Twitter) and Staycation (a holiday spent in one's home country), cheesebal (something lacking taste) Toxic Debt (high risk assets) and Paywall (restricting a website to subscribers).
Some current words also gained a new meaning like Blitz (the action of a food mixer) and Boss (A tough opponent in a video game).
Sadly it seems that the wonderful world of the English language is deteriorating. Perhaps the book should be renamed as the American Dictionary? :-(
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