New OED Debuts

The New Oxford American Dictionary publishes a new edition electronically (and on paper too). “Of the new dictionary’s more than a quarter million entries, about 2,000 were added since the first edition came out in 2001. Words that gained currency in American English over the last four years, and gained entry in NOAD, include “bridezilla” (“an overzealous bride-to-be who acts irrationally or causes offense”) and “speed dating” (“a social activity in which equal complements of potential partners spend a few minutes in short interviews with all other participants in order to determine whether there is interest”).”