Quiz: do you know your bants from your manspreading?
by Carmen Fishwick from on (#JKSH)
An online dictionary has released a list of 1,000 new words - how many do you know? Test your knowledge of contemporary English
Words and phrases that have widespread currency in English have been added to the the online dictionary oxforddictionaries.com in its latest quarterly update. How many of the 1,000 new words do you know?
Fiona McPherson, senior editor of Oxford Dictionaries, said the addition of multiple slang words did not represent a dumbing down of English, but showed creative use of language.
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