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“Froyo” and Other Funky Words Added to the Dictionary this Year

This entry was posted in quirk and tagged Dictionary, English, english classes, Froyo, Language, Language Learning, learn English, Merriam-Webster, New Words, Oxford, Words on October 11, 2017 by Katie .
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It seems that the words added annually to the Oxford Dictionary or Merriam-Webster get more and more interesting with each passing year. Last year, we were gifted with the popular acronym “YOLO” (a word so overused people simply stopped using it), and, weird shortened versions of words like “‘Merica”. Suffice it to say, new words(…)

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