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New Words in Oxford dictionary
January 27 , 2020
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- Aadhaar, hartal, dabba and shaadi are among the 26 new Indian-English words that have been made into the latest edition of the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (OALD).
- These new inclusions take the number of Indian-English words to 384 in the 10th edition of the dictionary which features a staggering 86,000 words.
- The dictionary chose 'climate emergency' as the Word of the Year 2019.
- The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP) of the United Kingdom.
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