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Every year many new words and expressions discover by the public. Oxford university press got the huge and most wide- ranging research programmes around the world to find new words and add it to dictionary. Oxford English Corpus and Oxford reading programme collecting words from the world wide web. The reading programme which they used to extracts words from the variety of articles, songs, journals and internet slang.Oxford family that focuses on modern language words that people are using now and how they are using them.  Anybody can send their made up words and ask to add to the dictionary. They will assess and look at the evidence and add.

The top ten unexpected words and definitions added today:

1. manspreading (noun): The practice where by a man, especially one travelling on public transport, adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat

2. awesomesauce(adjective): extremely good; excellent

3. bants(noun): Playfully teasing or mocking remarks exchanged with another person or group; banter

4. fat shame(verb): cause( some one judged to be fat or over weight) to fell humiliated by making mocking or critical comments about their size

5. Brexit(noun): a term for the potential or hypothetical departure on the United Kingdom from the European Union

6. bruth(noun): a male friend( often used as a form of address)

7. cakeage(noun): a charge made by a restaurant for serving a cake they have not supplied themselves

8. fatsberg(noun): a very large mass of solid waste in a sewerage system, consisting especially of congealed fat and personal hygiene products that have been flushed down toilets

9. grexit(noun): a term for the potential withdrawal of Greece from the euro-zone

10. hangry(adjective): bad- tempered or irritable as a result of hunger

    source: (The telegraph)

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