Humblebrag, listicle, live-tweet, clickbait and YOLO have been added to the Oxford Dictionaries

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Give yourself a pat on the back, Internet. Oxford Dictionaries has given in and added ridiculous modern words like humble brag, listicle, live-tweet, clickbait and YOLO to a quarterly update of its official online dictionary. Now you can SMH at all those neckbeards binge-watching Game of Thrones, because FML. I’m very sorry that’s now an actual sentence. This latest addition_not all millennial hijinks, though. You’ll also find_a few somewhat reasonable tech words in this batch, like cord cutting, hyper connected, Deep Web, fast follower and smartwatch. Oxford Dictionaries uses a language monitoring program to track the new words that people...
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