{"id":10350,"date":"2018-02-15T08:41:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T21:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/?p=10350"},"modified":"2018-02-15T08:41:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T21:41:04","slug":"ransomware-officially-added-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/ransomware-officially-added-dictionary","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ransomware&#8217; Officially Added to the Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re an English purist, you may want to brace yourself or click the &#8216;back&#8217; button. Over 1,000 words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), and some of them are&#8230; (gasp)&#8230; text slang.<\/p>\n<p>The most useful addition, in our biased opinion, is &#8216;ransomware&#8217;. Considering how large an impact ransomware is expected to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/news\/age-ransomware-just-begun\/\">between now and 2021<\/a>, it&#8217;s certainly good to have it acknowledged &#8211; and thoroughly expected after the advent of WannaCry.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperlink has been added too, which honestly seems like something that should have been added the the OED before ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>Other, more ambiguous additions are things like American rapper Jay-Z&#8217;s word &#8211; &#8216;swag&#8217; being added to the dictionary. It&#8217;s the sixth OED citation, making him a regular Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p>Some of his other notable entries include things like &#8216;cheese&#8217; &#8211; not the food, but as American slang for money. Actual cheese <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_cheese\">did in fact predate<\/a> Jay-Z&#8217;s existence.<\/p>\n<h4>Some other new words:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Hangry &#8211; This is a portmanteau of the words &#8216;hungry&#8217; and &#8216;angry&#8217;. It&#8217;s meant to describe the feeling of you getting bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger.<\/li>\n<li>Tomgirl &#8211; A girl or woman who dresses in a manner that is conventionally associated with boys.<\/li>\n<li>CIO &#8211; Cry it out.<\/li>\n<li>Masstige &#8211; Another\u00a0portmanteau of the words &#8216;masses&#8217; and &#8216;prestige&#8217;. It means something that is cheap but marketed as luxurious.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a literary nerd like me, you can see the <a href=\"http:\/\/public.oed.com\/the-oed-today\/recent-updates-to-the-oed\/january-2018-update\/new-words-list-january-2018\/\">full list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Ransomware&#8217;, &#8216;Hyperlink&#8217;, &#8216;Hangry&#8217; and &#8216;Mansplaining&#8217; &#8211; just some of the new words you can now find in the Oxford English Dictionary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[634,669,670,311],"class_list":["post-10350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-oed","tag-oxford-english-dictionary","tag-ransomware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Ransomware&#039; 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