Reference and languages OED's new words include 'mansplaining' but steer clear of 'poomageddon' Dictionary’s fresh definitions include more than 100 words related to parenting, but Mumsnet users’ neologisms for toilet disasters stay on watch list Seeking mansplanation … a man consults the Oxford Dictionary of English. “Our Mumsnet respondents had no fewer than 13 different suggestions for words describing an explosion of infant faeces of epic proportions,” said Mooring. More than 1,100 new words were included in the latest update to the online edition of the dictionary, with more than 100 of them relating to parenting. The last print edition of the OED – its second edition - was published in 1989, with a third edition unlikely to make it into print. The exchange sees a woman “thanking” a male blog commentator for “mansplaining” to her, and he responds asking if it was really “mansplaining”.

Source: The Guardian January 30, 2018 14:26 UTC