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Friday, December 6, 2013
resource of the week: Oxford English Dictionary
The December 2013 update of the Oxford English Dictionary is now live! Along with more than 500 new words, phrases, and senses, more than 1000 entries have been revised. One of the new words added is emoji, a Japanese loanword referring to small digital images or icons used in texting and other electronic communications to express ideas and emotions. See the full list of new words.