'Tweet' joins 'big data,' 'crowdsourcing,' 'e-reader,' 'mouseover' and 'have a cow' in the Oxford English Dictionary

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 17:30 in Earth & Climate

Some notes on the new vocabulary in this batch... Scientific vocabulary (especially technology) forms a healthy chunk: big data, crowdsourcing, e-reader, mouseover, redirect (the noun), and stream (the verb). The OED Online’s use of mouseover predates our inclusion of th …

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