Article JKAX From bants to manspreading: what's new in the oxforddictionaries.com

From bants to manspreading: what's new in the oxforddictionaries.com

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Free online dictionary releases list of 1,000 latest words added to its database - with new entries also including Grexit, Brexit and beer o'clock

Britons are offending commuters by manspreading, revelling in bants with their friends at beer o'clock, and being charged cakeage for bringing a birthday dessert into a restaurant, but it's NBD.

Those are just some of the 1,000 new words added to oxforddictionaries.com in its latest quarterly update, which reveals current trends in the use of language.

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