The new Concise Oxford English Dictionary for 2012 includes words like woot, sexting, retweet, and more. Your Words with Friends game may never be the same. Your Scrabble tiles may need to be redistributed across the alphabet to allow for more i's if Apple keeps changing our names for our Internet-capable devices.The older I get, and the crazier and more flexible our language becomes, It makes me glad that the manuscripts which comprise the Bible were written in dead languages. Thankfully, their meaning stays the same. But it is nice to have new words to reflect those original meanings. But I suppose we need to add "sexting" to places like Matthew 5 and Galatians 5.
Read more about new additions to the dictionary on the Telegraph web site.
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