You’d think words like ‘baked potato’, ‘citrusy’ and ‘crap shoot’ have been around long enough to gain official acceptance in the Oxford English Dictionary but, surprisingly, according to inbound marketing expert HubSpot, they were among words in everyday use included in the dictionary for the first time in 2014.
Other latecomers to the lexicon are perhaps more understandable, having becoming popular through the influence of social media. We’re talking here about new entrants such as ‘bestie’, ‘selfie’, ‘hashtag’ (thanks Twitter) and ‘First world problem’.
Personally, I hadn’t heard of ‘wackadoodle’ (n.adj. crazy, mad, eccentric) or ‘high muckety-muck’ (n. a bigwig) but words I don’t think I could live without are ‘TBH’ (shorthand for “To be honest”) and ‘wardrobe malfunction’ to describe those occasions when you inadvertently leave the house with your flies undone or skirt tucked in your knickers. Or worse, as demonstrated by Janet Jackson above.
