What new addition to the English dictionary do you like?

[purplepoppy]

The Oxford English Dictionary has been updated and added a few welsh words/phrases. A few have been anglicised for obvious reasons.

The one's to now enrich your vocabulary and cause Scrabble fights are,

• Bachgen, noun (a boy)
• Boys bach, noun and interjection (exclamation of surprise) or a group of boys
• Bwbach, noun (house elf) "booback"
• In one’s oils, phrase (at ease)
• Now in a minute, phrase
• Twpsyn, noun (fool idiot) "toopsin"

So these are now considered official English words too, but which will you be slipping into conversation tomorrow?

Bachgen

Bois bach/ boys bach

Bwbach

In one's oils

Now in a minute

Twpsyn

Updates

2 h

I've absolutely no idea why GAG insisted on putting this in sexuality

[Laws-Of-Existence]

Why do your depictions have happy merchant noses? ㅤ

[Veronika_p]

One I like is “doomscrolling.” 😅 It describes that habit of endlessly scrolling through negative or upsetting news online. It’s surprisingly useful because it captures something that became a very real part of modern life in just one word. 📱

I also like how English keeps evolving with technology and culture. Some new words sound silly at first, then suddenly you realize you use them all the time. 😄

[NathanDavis]

"now in a minute"

because that just sounds like the most Mexican thing to ever say which is "ahorita"

when you say "ahorita" it can literally be now in a minute to now or never... lol

[RavVid]

Definitely toopsin. It has a beautiful contemptuous sound. It is most definitely going round the world in the anglosphere.

Not confident it will make it into Indian English as they are excessively polite. That might be a problem with it's Canadian uptake as well. No prob in that regard with Australian uptake though drongo is the standard word.

[Iron_Man]

I like the original Webster English dictionary the Welsh are like Cubans living in Miami. It’s too much to overwhelming