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All posts tagged "Tweeps"

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  • Ever wanted to get ‘tweeps’ in the dictionary? Now’s your chance

    By on 13 July, 2012

    Depending what your feelings on language are, this story will either make you celebrate the evolving nature of English or weep into your coffee. Publishing house Harper Collins is giving people the chance to officially get their favourite social media terms into the Collins English Dictionary. Yup, that means words like "tweeps" could officially become part of the English language. The publisher says that after it saw words and acronyms (like OMG and LOL) emerging from technology and social media to become “official” in the English language, it "decided it was time for words like 'tweeps' and 'cyberstalking' to...

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