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Subject: New online OED invites feeding frenzy ! Author: Dave [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 01:18:03 01/17/02 Thu New online OED invites feeding frenzy The Oxford English Dictionary Online has been updated to include hundreds of new words. The latest additions includes the Japanese term karoshi meaning "death brought on by overwork or job-related exhaustion". Anyone feeling the karoshi should find the alternative therapy Ayurveda - a word which makes an appearance along with dosha, kapha, vata and pitta. New technology expands its presence in the dictionary with entries ranging from ethernet to hot-link, meaning "a link between documents or applications which enables data from one source to be incorporated into another". It can also be a "spicy sausage". Anyone logging on to the updated OED Online can see that high street can be used as an adjective to mean "popular or mainstream". Feeding frenzy, decaf, Dolcelatte, haircare and frizzy are also among the new wave of words. Girl Power was an obvious omission from the dictionary since the Spice Girls brought it into common parlance in the late 1990s, but OED Online also now includes "riot girls" who apparently beat Posh, Baby, Ginger, Sporty and Scary to it by using Girl Power in the USA a few years earlier. Girl Power is defined as "a self-reliant attitude among girls and young women manifested in ambition, assertiveness and individualism". But a riot girl, or a grrrl, is a more militant creature defined as a member of "a movement expressing feminist resistance to male domination in society". Another new word in the seventh quarterly update of the OED Online site is comper - defined as "a person who habitually enters competitions in order to win as many prizes as possible". The practice of this art is comping. More than 10,000 new entries have been added to the site on Oxford English Dictionary Online since March 2000. Story filed: 00:32 Thursday 17th January 2002 [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]