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aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes:

Yeah! Alt-right has made it! A real word not, not made up by a white surpremacist, well, actually still made up by a white supremacist. News announced here (Quartz) [qz.com].

Prepper, alt-right, nothingburger, and idiocracy are among the more than 1,400 new words, meanings, and phrases the Oxford English Dictionary has added in its most recent quarterly update.

The newest bonified (look it up) entries include obscure but enduring terms the dictionary’s lexicographers have deemed worthy of inclusion (welcome squeakiness and bedunged!) as well as relatively recent words that have left an indelible mark on the English language (hello, Butterbeer and CrossFit).The OED bills itself as the definitive record of the English language from which no words are ever deleted; future historians puzzled by references to d-bags, jabronis, or lumbersexuals in early 21st-century texts will now be able to find those definitions in the OED.

Something of a nothingburger, but in the Age of Crossfit idiotcracy, this is the only only way the alt-right can reach the front page of the SoylentNews. Bona Fide, mon Capitan!

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