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Weird. Usually dictionaries wait many years for words to be established before including them (it's a physical dictionary after all). Adding delulu reeks of cap
by xdfgh1112 1y ago
Weird. Usually dictionaries wait many years for words to be established before including them (it's a physical dictionary after all). Adding delulu reeks of capitalising on the zeitgeist for PR
- qn9n 1y ago> The Oxford English Dictionary is often considered the more authoritative source on the English language, whereas the Cambridge Dictionary focuses more on modern usage.
- Steven420 1y agoDictionaries are no longer a reliable source of information just click bait bs
- umeshunni 1y agoYeah - this makes me very curious about the longevity of previous 'words of the year'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_the_year
- TillE 1y agoI've definitely heard "delulu" years ago, probably floating around Twitter. There's a Wikipedia article on the word for some reason, and it supports this.
- dragonwriter 1y ago> Usually dictionaries wait many years for words to be established before including them (it's a physical dictionary after all). Adding delulu reels of capitalising the zeitgeist for PR Delulu is more than a decade old. > it's a physical dictionary after all Is the Cambridge Dictionary still physical-first? I know the OED has been digital-first since at least around the turn of the millenium (the last full physical edition was in 1989.)
- 3836293648 1y agoThe OED has been what since when? How was their website so utterly unusable for so many years then? That's the entire reason I use the Cambridge now