{"id":648,"date":"2019-10-15T10:31:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T16:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2019-10-15T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T16:31:50","slug":"new-words-are-these-even-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/new-words-are-these-even-words\/","title":{"rendered":"New words? Are these even words?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not going to be a long post today because I am too irritated to even type. The Oxford English Dictionary has just added 203 new words for 2019. You can see the list online but frankly, I wouldn\u2019t bother. It is filled with words <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dictionary-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dictionary word list 2019\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>that have been in use for decades: ancestory, auditorily, bare-bones, beachside, bull rider (bull riding), Cobb Salad, easy breezy, simmered, slam dunk and wedge salad to name a few to an entire range of sexual and near pornographic terms: circle jerk, coc# suck, coc# tease, dic# suck and more. To inexplicably phonetic slang speak: ayete, jafaican, sumfin, sumptin, summink, sumthin (the last for all meaning something) and whatev. Also included are such questionable choices as Saturnilian n.: An adherent of an early Gnostic sect founded by Saturninus in the second century; = Saturninian n. Now why after 19 centuries do we need this word and the accompanying Saturninian now?<\/p>\n<p>There are also newly recognized phrases: Anchor child, apology tour, bad seed, angry white man, to hold one\u2019s coc#, coc# block<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-649 alignleft\" style=\"color: #333333; float: left; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot; times new roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;bitstream charter&amp;quot;,times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: auto; letter-spacing: normal; max-width: 100%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 1em 0.5em 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Bookandletters-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"New word list 2019\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>ing, a whole array of cocktail circuit related terms: cocktail umbrella, cocktail attire, cocktail dress, cocktail length, cocktail snack, cocktail waitress, cocktail ring, cocktail sauce, cocktail culture cocktail napkin. Then there\u2019s fake news, skin lightener, No harm; no foul, a little something something (in all its new various spellings).<\/p>\n<p>There are the ones you would expect to see like crypto currency, bitcoin and comp but there are also light saber, jedi and kapow. There are head scratches a plenty: how could we never have had Bar Mitvah and Bat Mitvah in the dictionary before? Do we really need<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-650 \" style=\"margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; outline: #72777c solid 1px; height: 199px; text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; max-width: 100%; orphans: 2; float: right; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Cockerspaniel-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"cocker Spaniel\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/> nomophobia (fear of not having access to a mobile phone)? Or promposal? When I look at the list I think to myself English was a difficult enough language to learn before there were five different ways to spell and pronounce something. At least the poor old Cocker Spaniel finally made it into the dictionary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not going to be a long post today because I am too irritated to even type. The Oxford English Dictionary has just added 203 new words for 2019. You can see the list online but frankly, I wouldn\u2019t bother. It is filled with words that have been in use for decades: ancestory, auditorily, &#8230; <a title=\"New words? Are these even words?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/new-words-are-these-even-words\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New words? Are these even words?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,55,34,67,30,10,64],"tags":[5,37,60,14,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therobbinsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}