What are the 21st century words?

What are the 21st century words?

9 words that define the 21st century

  • ANTHROPOCENE. Perhaps the least-known term on this list, Anthropocene encompasses all the other words here.
  • GOOGLE. Google: once just a noun, now a verb.
  • DEEP STATE.
  • BROMANCE.
  • SELFIE.
  • PODCAST.
  • SEXTING.
  • CRYPTOCURRENCY.

How many words have been added to the dictionary since 1900?

The English lexicon has expanded hugely over the past hundred years. The Oxford English Dictionary records about 185,000 new words, and new meanings of old words, that came into the English language between 1900 and 1999. That leaves out of account the so-called lexical ‘dark matter’.

What word was invented in 2000?

2000. It’s hard to imagine that there was a time when no one in the world used the word Google.

How are new words formed?

Over half of the words in our language have been formed by adding prefixes and suffixes to root words. It relies on the fact that these suffixes or prefixes have known, stable definitions, so they can be attached to any existing word to layer their meaning.

How often are new words added to the English language?

Still, every decade new words are added to the English language. Here are some of them: You can track new words at Word Spy. Did you know? Before the year 1000, the word “she” did not exist in the English language.

What are the new words in the Dictionary?

The words we use—if they are new or relatively new—are the words we need to express and explain our world. If these words then also become widely used, it becomes the dictionary’s job to explain this use. Among the new additions: coworking, hard pass, cancel culture, decarceration, and hygge.

What is the origin of Modern English words?

During the English Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution, compounding classical elements of Greek and Latin (e.g. photograph, telephone, etc) was a very common method of English word formation, and the process continues even today.

When did the word’Shopaholic’become a word?

It first showed up in 1997, in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and it took just five years, according to the BBC, for the Oxford English Dictionary to deem it official. Thanks to the boom of mall culture and development of megamalls in the ’80s, we gained heavy usage of the word “shopaholic,” and it’s still used often today.